How to layout a ebook in Microsoft Word
(for Createspace, Lightning Source, or IngramSpark)
This is a guide to formatting your e-book in Microsoft Word (2010). We'll be creating a 6"x9" PDF for print; however you may effortlessly change the report to every other length. You can watch those 3 films, or go through the manual down below. You can begin your very own record from scratch, or download our free package deal of formatting templates to get began speedy. Part 1: Setting Paragraph Styles
How to format a e book for print in MS Word - Tutorial #1
Part 2: putting in headers, web page numbers and footings
How to layout a e-book for print in MS Word - Tutorial #2
Part three: Front count and again count pointers
How to format a book for print in MS Word - Tutorial #3
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How to layout a book in Microsoft Word (with photographs)Getting began
Open a new record. Click “size”>> “More paper sizes” and set the file to 6”x9” (or your ebook size).
Then set the margins and gutter. Make sure to use to the “whole document” instead of “this phase.”
I set this one to 1" margins at the pinnacle and bottom (a bit too much on the pinnacle). The "Gutter" is more area at the internal. Recently (2014) I've noticed that Createspace ebook spines are plenty extra glued-together, so the gutter can also need to be a touch bigger. Copy and paste your text into the file (or, if you’ve already been writing in Word, shop the document as a new record (to be safe) after which start formatting.Setting Paragraphs
Highlight some textual content and click on on the "line alternatives" tab. Set the indent for the first line of paragraphs to .2 or so (I started with .3, however it is too much).
Make positive there is no space earlier than or after the paragraph, and justified textual content. Select the font you want to use. With that textual content nevertheless selected, proper click, visit “Styles” and “Update Normal to Match Selection.” Now your whole document is the use of the “Normal fashion.”
Then select the first paragraph of your ebook, click line spacing alternatives once more, but set the first line indent at zero.0. This time, proper click on and “Save the selection as a new fashion.” Save it as “First Paragraph.” Chapter Pages
Next, we’re going to split all of the chapters. This might be simply crucial later while we start adding headers and footers. So positioned the cursor before any of the text, visit “Page Layout” >> “Breaks” and “Next Page.”
If you’ve accomplished this proper, the primary page will say “First page Footer, Section 1” and the top of the following page will say “First Page Header, Section 2.”
Click into the headers area (by clicking the distance at the pinnacle of the page) and ensure you’ve checked "Different First Page” and “Different Odd and Even Pages.”
Because that is the first web page of the primary bankruptcy, you could start styling the bankruptcy pages. To make use of Word’s built in Table of Contents function, it’s first-rate to begin with Word’s preset “Heading One.”
Just kind “Chapter One”, select it, select “Heading 1” from the patterns, then alternate the scale and font, pick the textual content and right-click, then below "patterns" click “Update Heading One to in shape choice.” (I've changed the font to no-indent, black, and "Bebas Neue.") You may additionally want to make bigger the textual content with the aid of citing the fonts menu (Ctrl+D on Windows) visit advanced, spacing and “expanded.”
You must additionally test to make sure there’s no indent to your chapter identify, in order that it’s virtually centered.
If you have got a “Navigation” window open at the left side, this heading need to display up right away.
Now you could need to style the first sentence. Select the first few phrases, and transform them to uppercase by way of going to the “Change Case” button on the Home menu.
Then, to add a Dropcap, placed the cursor earlier than the first letter of the first sentence, then go to the Insert panel and click the DropCap function.
You can trade the font of the drop cap to face out even greater, however getting the location right may be complicated. If you need the Dropcap to take two strains instead of three, pick “Drop Cap options” from the menu.
Now that our first page is ready, flow down to the second one page and click on in the top region to pick the header. Up on the menu, the “Link to Previous” is probably decided on. You want to click on on it to unlink it (just for the first pages, in order that they do not link with the the front remember. For the ultimate pages, you may want hyperlink to previous decided on). I’ll kind in “Book Title”, get the style right and then keep it as a brand new quick fashion (“headers”).
I’ll align proper. If you've got “gutter” installation, you can see that the “interior” of the page (at the left) has more spacing. You need to align your headers and footers to the out of doors, so ensure it’s on the aspect of the page with the smaller margins.
Then I’ll pass into the footers place, click on “Insert”, then web page numbers>>modern-day role>>undeniable quantity. This enters a page number field. Mine starts offevolved on page three. If I want to exchange this, I ought to visit Insert>>page numbers>>Format web page numbers and then choose “start at #...” as opposed to “keep from preceding section.”
Then I can go all the way down to the following web page. Because I’ve decided on “Different Odd & Even Pages” I could make this web page a bit one-of-a-kind, via aligning left and typing “Author Name.”
Then, rather than putting the page wide variety again, I can just select and copy the web page wide variety subject from the preceding web page, and paste it into the footer of this page – aligning it left like the header. To check my work, I’ll go to “View” and hit the “Two pages” so I can ensure that it seems OK.
There’s a little too much space between my headers and the content material… but that’s due to the fact I set my pinnacle web page margins to at least one” (a chunk a good deal). I’ll depart it for now. The headings and web page numbers look nice, so I’ll cross again to View>> one hundred% and maintain on. The whole first bankruptcy must look quite right now.
If I want to fashion segment breaks I may want to… a easy manner is to use the “First Paragraph” style once more with all caps on the first few words, however no dropcaps.
When I get all the way down to the lowest of the bankruptcy, I’ll positioned the cursor below the textual content, pick out Page layout>>Breaks >> and hit “Next Page” once more.
Because this is the primary page of a brand new segment, and we’ve decided on “Different First Page” this web page must be blank, with no headers and footers, so you can style it just like the first Chapter Page. In Word, it’s tough to line up the entirety exactly.
The first-rate way to get it a hundred% consistent is to select and duplicate from simply above the primary paragraph to the pinnacle of the web page, which include all of the spaces and Chapter Header, after which pasting it the first page of the subsequent bankruptcy. That’s also a bit faster than redoing the whole thing manually. Then I can simply exchange the textual content to “Chapter Two”.
The following pages within the e-book have to have the same headers and footers, and the page numbers should be computerized. So all you need to do is bypass thru and adding "Next Page" breaks among every bankruptcy, and styling the chapter pages. If your page numbers aren’t working for any purpose, make sure the “Link to Previous” option is chosen. If they nevertheless aren’t connecting, visit layout web page numbers and “retain from preceding.”
