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… to BenM’s comment on the distraction of spending time on personal typesetting and Word formatting instead of actually writing.
I’m an editor: Trust me, this stuff is NOT important. It’s the first thing we have to UNDO when a manuscript comes in, and sometimes it’s a nightmare. There are other people who will handle this stuff downstream. Stick to the WORDS.
(And, by the way, if your publisher is in fact making you do this stuff, he’s just lazy.)