Automatic Page Numbering For A Book Word Mac
By Colin Dunbar In today’s self publishing world, it’s a good idea to have your book available in as many formats as you can. Now we’re going to look at the Kindle. Formatting for the Kindle is really plain formatting (just like typing on a typewriter, if you’re old enough to remember those days ). In this post I explain formatting your Word file for the Kindle. There are tools available to convert your Word file to the.mobi Kindle format. Probably the best known is Calibre (available free, here: ). If you go this route, you will need some experience with HTML – nothing highly advanced, but you should know the basics.
How to have page numbers start on page 3 using MS Word 2011 for Mac. Under ‘page numbering’, select Start At and enter “1”. The Missing Manual seems to be the best office for mac book around, and covers formatting in a lot more detail than the Office for Dummies books. Share Tweet Post. Matthew Rathbone. Learn how to move page numbers on landscape pages to the left margin. Check mac for virus 2017. If you are using Word for Mac 2016, please watch the other video in the playlist for 2016 only.
You also have the option of formatting your ebook in HTML 5 and CSS (but you will need some experience in using these). You can upload your Word file to Amazon and have it available as a Kindle ebook. You need to create a separate cover image (Minimum of 625 pixels at shortest side and 1000 pixels on longest side. Best quality is 2500 pixels on the longest side), and the format should be TIFF or JPEG. Are you ready to turn your book into your Kindle ebook version? Let’s go Formatting Your Word Manuscript for Kindle You can save your Word file as.doc or.docx (Amazon now accepts both formats).
Remember, this is like old fashioned typewriting, so you need to strip away all special styles from your manuscript. If you don’t already have your manuscript written, and you’re starting to write your book, you won’t need to worry about removing styles, just keep everything plain. If you have already written and designed your book for the hard copy version, you will need to remove all the fancy formatting for your Kindle ebook. It’s not that bad:o). If you already have your book written (and formatted) in Word, pay special attention to the following.
Kindle does not recognize any of the following: • Text boxes • Bullets • Auto Numbering • Special fonts • Headers and footers • Special Word styles You can use the following formatting in your Word manuscript: • Indentations (keep in mind that the Kindle automatically indents the first line of a paragraph – this is a default setting in Kindle). • Bold and italics • Headings There are 2 ways you can strip the fancy things out of your Word manuscript: • You can go through your manuscript and change each style, one at a time, or • You can select your whole manuscript and change everything to Word’s Normal Then you will need to go through your manuscript again, and add the Heading styles, italics, bold, etc. We’re going to use this method here (using the Format Painter it can actually be done quickly and easily). Open your Word file. If you want to practice on a plain Word document, you can download the file available here (or right-click and save to your computer): Save your Word file in the.doc or.docx format (Kindle now accepts both formats).