Format your book for print with MS Word(R): For authors, editors and virtual assistants

by Jennifer Mosher

Overview

Thanks to the internet, print on demand and ebook technology, self publishing is rapidly becoming the acceptable way for people to share their thoughts and ideas. However, while the ease and speed to market is being appreciated by many emerging writers around the world, the quality of layout isn’t always appreciated by those reading these newly-minted works.

In Format your book for print with MS Word, IndieMosh founder Jennifer Mosher introduces the aspiring self publisher to the wonders of Word’s Styles function. The exercises in the book illustrate a range of things the author can do quite easily to make their work appear neater and more readable. And once the exercises have been completed, the author will begin noticing things in other books that they weren’t previously aware of.

While Format your book for print with MS Word is aimed at emerging writers, it can also be used by virtual assistants and editors as an introduction to the value of Word’s styles function, perhaps even allowing them to add another source of income to their offerings.

Please note that this book was written with Word for Windows in mind. However, advanced Word for Mac users may still be able to find some value in this guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925814545
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	10/21/2018
Series:	Indiemosh Getting Started Guide , #2
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Mosher is an accountant by trade who fell into helping people self publish after a mid-life career change via editing. The one thing she's learned in life is that nothing you learn is ever wasted.

When she's not helping Australian authors self publish via IndieMosh.com.au she's trying to write her next book. While she's drawn towards non-fiction around self publishing lately, she one day hopes to get out of that and into some fun pulp fiction. One day!

In the meantime, Jennifer relaxes by bushwalking, painting, hunting dead relatives for her ever-expanding family trees, making papier mâché bowls from recycled paper and spending time with family and friends.

To find out more, visit her self-indulgent, occasionally updated, occasionally opinionated blog and website at jennifermosher.com.au

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Let’s start with some Roast Beef, Cheese, Love and Pickles 3

One, two, three, what are we fighting for? 4

Why? 4

3. Preparation – the key to success 5

Learning aims of this chapter: 5

Create a working copy 5

Setting your page size 7

Setting your margins 9

4. Let’s start formatting 13

Learning aims of this chapter: 13

Creating text styles 13

Decide how your paragraphs are going to look 33

Tidy up unwanted line breaks and delete empty lines 41

Reinstate italics 47

Starting each chapter on a new page 53

Numbering your pages 56

Use Print Preview to check your formatting work 61

5. Title pages and ‘front matter’ 65

Learning aims of this chapter: 65

The initial pages of your book 65

Setting up Roast Beef’s introductory pages 66

Back to the title page 79

Getting the headers and footers right 83

6. Let’s add some gravy 91

Learning aims of this chapter: 91

Quick summary of where we’re at right now 91

Getting an appropriate page size 91

Fix things to look good on the new page size 94

Vertical Justification 97

Widows and Orphans 98

Tidying up punctuation 104

7. Now let’s add some spice! 119

Learning aims of this chapter: 119

Dynamic Page Headers 119

Different ToC entries to the page headings 121

8. Time to serve up 129

Learning aims of this chapter: 129

Is it cooked? 129

Export to PDF 132

Exporting a PDF for print 133

9. Looking back 135

Why did we have to nuke the original copy of Roast Beef? 135

10. Quick reference 139

Tools to become real friendly with 139

Terms 140

Tailoring 140

Tricks of the trade 141

11. The wash-up 143

12. Acknowledgements 145

13. About the Author 147