Jutoh makes it easy to create ebooks in popular formats that you can sell on many ebook sites, including Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iBooks. Create your project in seconds from existing files using the New Project Wizard; or create your book from scratch using the built-in styled text editor. Select a book cover design from Jutoh's templates, or create your own with the built-in cover designer. Jutoh lets you start creating your ebooks quickly, but has plenty of features and configuration for more advanced use, including support for contents, index and endnotes pages
Jutoh downloaded easily, had user-friendly menus, etc. Jutoh explained the reformatting I had to do, but better yet, once I imported my file to Jutoh, I could edit it and see the changes live. Creating the epub was easy and the Kindle even easier.
Cons
I did have to download Open Office, Kindle Previewer and MobiPocket (all free) to get the formatting right before Jutoh could do its thing, but the latter two are necessary for Kindle, no matter how you do it.
Summary
Thank you, thank you! I'd spent several days formatting and downloading and following numerous instructions, all with frustrating, pointless, dead-end results. Then I got Jutoh and it made the process clear and it worked. I twice contacted Jutoh's creator along the way and got immediate replies with polite and helpful advice. Real people making a real program that really works. What a concept!