![]() On the tool pane to the right click on “Formatting”. You can modify the “elements” to an extent. (I’d be reluctant to use this program for any non-fiction project that requires sophisticated styling and multiple images.) To apply an element (actually, a style), set your cursor at the beginning of the text and then click on the option you want. In a work that is text-heavy, such as a novel or narrative non-fiction, you will be able to find just about everything you need. In the Text Properties pane on the right side of the screen KC has broken down the “elements” into Common Element (the body of the work) Title Pages and Book Start and End Pages (front and back matter). (The icon is on the upper right of the screen. The tag you see = is a search term, my indicator for page break.ģ. You will have to scrub it clean and copy/paste it into a text editor to remove destructive coding.)Ībove, the loaded and converted Word doc. (If the conversion isn’t successful, that can only mean that you’ve done some damage to the Word doc. When you first open the program a box will appear that asks you what type of project you are creating, and the language (the program supports a multitude of languages).Ģ. (All the hyperlinks I created in the Word doc worked just fine in the KC program.) Step by Step in Kindle Createġ. If you want to link to other works (Amazon listings only), your website, blog, social media or Amazon Author Page, create the links in the Word document. Kindle Create doesn’t appear to recognize heading styles. (And big pro, don’t worry about the table of contents–Kindle Create will generate it for you.) I also used tags to note where I want page breaks, scene breaks, and special paragraphs (the tags serve as search terms).Ībove is a clean doc, styled in Normal, with Heading 1 applied for my own purposes in Word. Place all front and back matter in the order you want for the finished book. I found that the best way is, in Word, to set up the body text or Normal style as if the doc is formatted for an ebook, but to leave the headings, front matter and back matter unstyled. ![]() (I’ve written extensively in this blog about the importance of a clean source doc and how to efficiently get it into shape.) I tried different levels of styling to see what the program will accept and what it won’t. Your source document must be in tip-top shape–edited, polished, proofread–and as clean as you can make it against unwanted coding. Cannot edit with the Previewer open (Makes proofreading even more tedious.)Īs with any type of format, it’s Garbage In, Garbage Out.Uses page view only, rather than an adjustable Web layout view.There is a Find function, but no Replace function.Making batch changes is not possible (that I can figure out). ![]() The results aren’t awful, but they don’t look very sophisticated either.) Themes are clunky (I don’t think a book designer had a hand in creating the styles. ![]() You will have to format an EPUB for other retailers.)
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