What kind of book are you working on? Let me know how it's going in the comments! PS - don't forget to download my free templates in Word and Indesign: www.diybookformats.com.
Some suggestions... When formatting in Word, I always recommend clicking the ¶ button to toggle ON the view of non-printing characters. This will give you cues about formatting that are otherwise easy to overlook: for example, is a paragraph indented by a paragraph indent value in the Format Paragraph dialog or just by the user pressing the Tab key? You will see the tab symbol if is the latter, but not for the former. Moreover, if you choose to show all formatting marks (Options > Display > Show all formatting marks), the ¶ toggle will include a small black square in the margin for any paragraphs that have invisible paragraph attributes like “Keep With Next”. Even better, if you double-click on such a mark, the applicable tab in the dialog box will be displayed. For this video, if you had pressed Shift-F1, the “Reveal Formatting” pane would have been presented to show exactly what formatting was in effect for any given selection. At ~2:45, you seem puzzled by the apparent switched inside & outside margins, but you are overlooking the fact that the two page view you selected is not intended to display spreads. A first page in a duplex book will always be the recto (right) face; even pages are verso (left); odd are recto. To show this more effectively, you could have chosen to display 3 pages with the Zoom dialog: that would show the 1st page as shown in your video, but the 2nd and 3rd pages would then show as facing spreads - and the gutter would be more obvious because it would be on the inside of the facing pages. Finally, if I am going to format a whole book, I always start by rationalizing the styles in the underlying template. In your video, the TOC styles changed when you altered the attributes of the title because they were probably “based on” that style. If you take the time up front to set up the styles to have the formatting you want *and* behave together in a consistent manner, you can get to a finished consistent look much more efficiently. Just my 2¢ worth...
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I purchased the template for my personal development book. I appreciate all the help videos however my skill level is not strong with Word and I found the videos very hard to follow and implement. Wish there were more beginners guide for us DIY'ers!
Derek, great videos. I formatted my Chapter Body text and all looks well, however, in two or three cases, the last page of a chapter is not aligned at the top. It starts halfway down the page. Not sure what to adjust to get this to look like a normal last page of a chapter. Thanks so much for your excellent vids!!!
This was super confusing. It's meant to be a tutorial, but you start to show something then go, "Nah" and stop, and then make changes in some places, but don't show how to apply them to everything. In other words, I learned nothing and just got very confused.
Always have problem with getting the bottom of pages to line up. So I go layout-page setup and choose "justified"; that then causes the last page of a chapter to justify and spread down whole page. Clicking "top" then gets you back to original problem ...
Thanks for this tutorial I like ask you how you make to different header first page one header and the next have different. and the second question is how I can make style have tow style for example number 1 by Arial 18 and the title text time new romain 14 . Thanks
The Table of Contents has two separate buttons on the upper left. UPDATE TOC which updates the entire thing and UPDATE NUMBERS which doesn't update the text.
Why is my space on the right side the same as on the left side when looking at the pages? Isn't one side suppose to be bigger than the other side since the gutter is in the center? What am I doing wrong?
7 minutes in and you looked stumped as to why it was indented, but when you opened the paragraph spacing window, it was set to (none). Then around the 7:15 mark, a space was added to the paragraph when you changed it to .3 indent. But if you went to the paragraph window, there is an option that you check off that says, " Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style." If you clicked that box and checked it off, it would have resolved the problem; at least for the part you highlighted. You know what you are doing apparently, but you seemed to be scattered. There wasn't a methodology. You just seemed to look for problem places and start dealing with them, only to run into other problems. I think if you did this again and made a crisper video, knowing exactly what you are going to do before recording, you may get a ton more likes. And if you know how to do setting up of Word for publication, a video on that would be cool too.
Thanks - I agree, this was just a quick video but not a methodology. I do have a bunch of actual tutorial videos that go step by step, did you watch them? You can find them on my TH-cam channel or www.diybookformats.com
@@DerekMurphycreativindie Do you know or have at have an idea as to what font in Microsoft Word 2010 is the best substitute that looks the closest to Script MT Bold? I'd like to know, please.?
I have a book manuscript in WORD. How much do you charge to format a book for publication in Ingram Sparks? Please let me know if you also work in Fiverr. Thanks
how did u make the part with the indents in the body text so it will be like that throughout the whole document? so i wont have to do it manually throughout the document :P Great video btw! :D
Don't expect this video to take you from A to Z on book formatting in Word. He jumps around so much, it's very confusing. His other videos do a better job of explaining this process.
yes! there are different settings, and the only problem is word to PDF tends to make really large file sizes. There are tools to strip down the file size a bit.
@@bookformattingexpert8121 I was hoping to find a reason as to why some of my punctuation marks ¶ have their tops filled in black but some of the others left uncoloured? A formatting issue I have yet to get my head around. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks
@@bookformattingexpert8121 You've sussed it...I have been using 2 types of font by the look of it, the difference between which I was unable to see until I highlighted the text and saw a slight change in size...if that makes sense? Many thanx
What kind of book are you working on? Let me know how it's going in the comments! PS - don't forget to download my free templates in Word and Indesign: www.diybookformats.com.
I'm working on poetry book
Some suggestions...
When formatting in Word, I always recommend clicking the ¶ button to toggle ON the view of non-printing characters. This will give you cues about formatting that are otherwise easy to overlook: for example, is a paragraph indented by a paragraph indent value in the Format Paragraph dialog or just by the user pressing the Tab key? You will see the tab symbol if is the latter, but not for the former. Moreover, if you choose to show all formatting marks (Options > Display > Show all formatting marks), the ¶ toggle will include a small black square in the margin for any paragraphs that have invisible paragraph attributes like “Keep With Next”. Even better, if you double-click on such a mark, the applicable tab in the dialog box will be displayed.
For this video, if you had pressed Shift-F1, the “Reveal Formatting” pane would have been presented to show exactly what formatting was in effect for any given selection.
At ~2:45, you seem puzzled by the apparent switched inside & outside margins, but you are overlooking the fact that the two page view you selected is not intended to display spreads. A first page in a duplex book will always be the recto (right) face; even pages are verso (left); odd are recto. To show this more effectively, you could have chosen to display 3 pages with the Zoom dialog: that would show the 1st page as shown in your video, but the 2nd and 3rd pages would then show as facing spreads - and the gutter would be more obvious because it would be on the inside of the facing pages.
Finally, if I am going to format a whole book, I always start by rationalizing the styles in the underlying template. In your video, the TOC styles changed when you altered the attributes of the title because they were probably “based on” that style. If you take the time up front to set up the styles to have the formatting you want *and* behave together in a consistent manner, you can get to a finished consistent look much more efficiently. Just my 2¢ worth...
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Enjoyed the video. The more you learn the greater!
Thank you. it was so helpful.
Great video, Thanks a lot!
If is not to much to ask, it would be very helpfull to show the "Show/Hide" marks to see the empty paragraphs, etc.
I purchased the template for my personal development book. I appreciate all the help videos however my skill level is not strong with Word and I found the videos very hard to follow and implement. Wish there were more beginners guide for us DIY'ers!
Derek, great videos. I formatted my Chapter Body text and all looks well, however, in two or three cases, the last page of a chapter is not aligned at the top. It starts halfway down the page. Not sure what to adjust to get this to look like a normal last page of a chapter. Thanks so much for your excellent vids!!!
thank you very much it is very helpful
Great video👍❤️
Great video help, thanks for y our time
This was super confusing. It's meant to be a tutorial, but you start to show something then go, "Nah" and stop, and then make changes in some places, but don't show how to apply them to everything. In other words, I learned nothing and just got very confused.
Brynn H. Watch his full 3-part tutorial. It’s super easy to follow. This is just a quick video.
How do you make different footers for each pages (for sources).
Hey thanks for the video, how do you format to show the chapters on the navigation pane?
Always have problem with getting the bottom of pages to line up. So I go layout-page setup and choose "justified"; that then causes the last page of a chapter to justify and spread down whole page. Clicking "top" then gets you back to original problem ...
actually the gutter was set right.... word as you have it there shows the right page , the chapter starting page, on the left, isntead of right...
Very usefull
Thanks for this tutorial I like ask you how you make to different header first page one header and the next have different. and the second question is how I can make style have tow style for example number 1 by Arial 18 and the title text time new romain 14 . Thanks
So do you do two space paragraphs?
The Table of Contents has two separate buttons on the upper left. UPDATE TOC which updates the entire thing and UPDATE NUMBERS which doesn't update the text.
My book is formatted not right justified and said that's how it is done today. Is that true?
Why is my space on the right side the same as on the left side when looking at the pages? Isn't one side suppose to be bigger than the other side since the gutter is in the center? What am I doing wrong?
7 minutes in and you looked stumped as to why it was indented, but when you opened the paragraph spacing window, it was set to (none). Then around the 7:15 mark, a space was added to the paragraph when you changed it to .3 indent. But if you went to the paragraph window, there is an option that you check off that says, " Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style." If you clicked that box and checked it off, it would have resolved the problem; at least for the part you highlighted.
You know what you are doing apparently, but you seemed to be scattered. There wasn't a methodology. You just seemed to look for problem places and start dealing with them, only to run into other problems. I think if you did this again and made a crisper video, knowing exactly what you are going to do before recording, you may get a ton more likes.
And if you know how to do setting up of Word for publication, a video on that would be cool too.
please made a video you sound like you know what your doing,I'm serious! This video was good, too!
Thanks - I agree, this was just a quick video but not a methodology. I do have a bunch of actual tutorial videos that go step by step, did you watch them? You can find them on my TH-cam channel or www.diybookformats.com
@@DerekMurphycreativindie Do you know or have at have an idea as to what font in Microsoft Word 2010 is the best substitute that looks the closest to Script MT Bold? I'd like to know, please.?
I have a book manuscript in WORD. How much do you charge to format a book for publication in Ingram Sparks? Please let me know if you also work in Fiverr. Thanks
I work on Fiverr. You can contact me if you need help.
I don't recommend Fiverr - check out www.diybookformats.com
how did u make the part with the indents in the body text so it will be like that throughout the whole document? so i wont have to do it manually throughout the document :P
Great video btw! :D
Cathrine Press cntrl A to select all, the select the normal style, which already has the indent
is it possible that the margin will only be on the left side of the paper for all pages so that the pages won’t be back to back?
Don't expect this video to take you from A to Z on book formatting in Word. He jumps around so much, it's very confusing. His other videos do a better job of explaining this process.
How do I make different footers on each page?
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Can word export high quality print ready PDFs. Thanks.
yes! there are different settings, and the only problem is word to PDF tends to make really large file sizes. There are tools to strip down the file size a bit.
Derek Murphy Thanks for the reply!
Change title of this video to: You watch while I try to figure out what to do.
yes, a lot of my videos are like that unfortunately.
@@DerekMurphycreativindie Lol! You're fun to watch, though.
Word is too buggy. I use latex.
Secrets
Confusing...gave up
Contact me if you need help with book formatting.
@@bookformattingexpert8121 I was hoping to find a reason as to why some of my punctuation marks ¶ have their tops filled in black but some of the others left uncoloured? A formatting issue I have yet to get my head around. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks
I think this is because of two different types of fonts.
@@bookformattingexpert8121 You've sussed it...I have been using 2 types of font by the look of it, the difference between which I was unable to see until I highlighted the text and saw a slight change in size...if that makes sense? Many thanx
Lost,
Damn, you just confused me more. Why?????
Love your stuff, but please go slower 😊
Way too many "Whoops"
dislike this.