If that's not what you want, you will go to the Design Tab, then fonts drop down menu and customize your fonts. I think that might be the default for the template already. Now, you can decide if you want a specific font for the body of your manuscript. OR if you choose to use Amazon, Smashwords, or some other conversion program directly while uploading your books to them, this will also help them to convert those chapters/book sections properly and be able to make the usable table of contents for the ebook as well. Second, it will make the ebook contents auto-populate when we upload the manuscript to Jutoh for ebook formatting. When you are done changing things, you simply double click back on the body of your manuscript.įirst, it makes it easier for you, as the author, to navigate between chapters when necessary as you work on your manuscript. You get into the header area by double clicking on it and then you will see the page look as it does in the image below (I have mine zoomed way out to show more than one page). For the purposes of the template you can leave them as is for now, if you like, just be aware of it so you don't forget when working on a new manuscript. Change this to the font and size you want to use for your book (obviously something that will need to changed for every book you do). Odd number pages have Book Title, even numbers have author name. In my books, I usually have them alternating pages. Change this to match your book title and/or author name. Once you figure out what you want to do with those pesky chapter heads, and you have it settled and they're all changed, it's time to move on to the author and book title that you will see at the top of the pages in your paperback (Header of the manuscript). So, just highlight the whole contents area and hit that delete button, or leave it for now, if you want to explore table of contents options later.ĭon't forget to redo the chapter heads for book sections like "dedication", "acknowledgements", and "about the author". Besides, I'm going to delete it for the ebook version anyway (you'll see why later). I did for years, but I've decided it just adds to the page count unnecessarily. Some people like to have it in paperbacks, some don't use it anymore. My first change is to delete the contents page.
You'll see why I make some of the changes I do later on when we drop our file into Jutoh for conversion. Now, here's what I do, because this is just not going to work as is (for me). Now that you have, first thing is first, go ahead and scroll through all the pages. YES! You absolutely have to enable editing. Once you open the word doc, you may see a little bar at the top of the document that asks you if you'd like to enable editing. Okay, so now we have our language, our paperback trim size, and we're ready to open this bad boy up and take a look at our starting point. Grab the one that says "templates with sample material" as it will be easier for our "starter template" purposes.
SET OPENING PAGE IN JUTOH DOWNLOAD
Go to Amazon (click on the highlighted, underlined word Amazon to go direct to the download page) and download their paperback manuscript template.
They are simply the ones that I will be using for this demonstration (and the ones I prefer after a decade of testing multiple programs). I do all my formatting using Microsoft 365 (Word) and Jutoh. Okay, now that I have given that little warning, let's get started. Never rename your original template once you have it set to your liking. That will be the one you use for your next release! When you're ready to start another book, you'll open up your template, save as your new book title, and rinse & repeat the process. Save it a second time with the title of the book you want to work on.
SET OPENING PAGE IN JUTOH HOW TO
Once I show you how to formulate the template to meet YOUR needs, make sure you SAVE THAT TEMPLATE so that you always have it. Since I get asked how I do it all the time, I am doing step-by-step on how I started. So, you want to write a book, but you don't want to go back in the end and have a daunting task of formatting it for the various different file types you will need for both the ebook and paperback publication.
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