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Formatting Tips for Kindle E-Book
Familiarize yourself with headings in your program. In OpenOffice, you select your text and choose from the dropdown menu in the upper left corner. This actually has two uses.
- Your table of contents--which you need for Kindle, even if you wouldn't have one in a physical book--relies on words in heading styles. You tell your table of contents to look for all phrases that are Heading 1, or, say, a Chapter Title Style that you create. It creates the table of contents based on the phrases that are dubbed to be a certain style. Not only that, but Kindle {especially the Kindle app} is aware of your styles. For example, the iPhone app shows chapter titles {remember, you marked them as mychaptertitlestyle or something} in different font/size from the rest of the text {though, not the font/size you formatted it to be}.
- It's also good to know about heading styles if you decide to delve into a print version because, say, at first you want your chapter titles in bold black. Then, later, you decide you want them in underlined gray {you'll probably choose a black/white interior for printing, but that doesn't mean you can't make use of grayscale!}.
Instead of going through the entire document and changing each one, you can change one and click the "More..." button, then decide to create a "New Style from Selection." Except you won't choose a new style, you'll choose the one you already had. Presto. Every piece of text styled bold black chapter heading is now underlined gray. That was easy.
Posts in the How-To E-Book Series
Formatting Tips: Hard Returns, Paragraph Indentions, More Paragraph Spacing {this post}
Formatting Tips: Margins, Fonts, Justification, Paragraph Spacing, Tabs
Formatting Tips: Heading Styles {this post}
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Hmmmm... I'm not sure how I missed that you had started this series, but I am ALL OVER IT.
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