You are great! 😍

@hapruitt.anelthalien

15 күн бұрын

@@pradeepielts Thank you!

Heather has formatted two books for me...and I must say that I have been very happy with both. Each time I pick those books up, I am always impressed with how the formatting has exceeded my expectation. I will be watching to see if I want to tackle this important and time consuming step of formatting.

@hapruitt.anelthalien

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience! I hope these videos can help you. 😊

I cannot wait for this series. I had no idea you used Microsoft Word because your books look sooooo professional it looks like some fancy program! I wish I had this series (especially the bit about pictures) before I bought atticus 😂

@hapruitt.anelthalien

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! That means a lot to hear that my formatting looks so good. It has taken quite a few books to figure it out, but I'm glad I have.

@authorjoannawhite

4 ай бұрын

@@hapruitt.anelthalien honestly it looks absolutely amazing! I constantly admired it as I read anelthelian lol

Any questions about formatting the body text?

KDP has free templates you can use for many different sizes of books, and you can change the page layout if you need a size they don't support. It's much easier than trying to do it from scratch. I hate their table of contents, but that's okay, I just delete it and use the TOC that's built into Microsoft Word in their Reference section. I think it looks nicer anyway.

@hapruitt.anelthalien

2 ай бұрын

I have tried using KDP's templates in the past, but I kept finding so many inconsistencies (like the page size changing halfway through the book) that I had to learn how to fix them, and it became easier to start from scratch rather than start with a template I had to fix. But I know authors use other sites with good templates

@BruceWayne15325

2 ай бұрын

@@hapruitt.anelthalien yeah the templates can be a pain for sure. I struggled with it for about a day. It ended up being more of an issue with me not fully understanding the intricacies of Word than anything to do with the templates themselves. Word is very flakey and difficult to use when it comes to formatting. To avoid things like page size changing on you, be sure to copy / paste your text into something like notepad that doesn't preserve any formatting. Then copy / paste it into the template. You still have a be a bit careful due to the page breaks, and make sure they exist in the right spot. Sometimes you need to turn on the hidden text to fully see what's going on. The TOC that the templates use are terrible, I recommend using Word's built-in TOC, but again that's kind of flakey and difficult to use when the TOC spans multiple pages.

What font were you using? Great video. Thanks

@hapruitt.anelthalien

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! I used 12 point Times New Roman font.