Besides, I'm going to delete it for the ebook version anyway (you'll see why later). I did for years, but I've decided it just adds to the page count unnecessarily. Some people like to have it in paperbacks, some don't use it anymore. My first change is to delete the contents page. You'll see why I make some of the changes I do later on when we drop our file into Jutoh for conversion. Now, here's what I do, because this is just not going to work as is (for me). Now that you have, first thing is first, go ahead and scroll through all the pages. YES! You absolutely have to enable editing. Once you open the word doc, you may see a little bar at the top of the document that asks you if you'd like to enable editing. Okay, so now we have our language, our paperback trim size, and we're ready to open this bad boy up and take a look at our starting point. Grab the one that says "templates with sample material" as it will be easier for our "starter template" purposes. Go to Amazon (click on the highlighted, underlined word Amazon to go direct to the download page) and download their paperback manuscript template. They are simply the ones that I will be using for this demonstration (and the ones I prefer after a decade of testing multiple programs). I do all my formatting using Microsoft 365 (Word) and Jutoh. Okay, now that I have given that little warning, let's get started. Never rename your original template once you have it set to your liking. That will be the one you use for your next release! When you're ready to start another book, you'll open up your template, save as your new book title, and rinse & repeat the process. Save it a second time with the title of the book you want to work on. Once I show you how to formulate the template to meet YOUR needs, make sure you SAVE THAT TEMPLATE so that you always have it. Since I get asked how I do it all the time, I am doing step-by-step on how I started. So, you want to write a book, but you don't want to go back in the end and have a daunting task of formatting it for the various different file types you will need for both the ebook and paperback publication.
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