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Setting up a Book
How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page
Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry |
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Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get
all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Forget my silly post. That webpage is *brilliant* Daiya!
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Well, it's just a collection of other people's brilliant links, but thanks.
For a while last year or the year before there were a number of frequent requests for such information, so I started by just compiling the links, and then it grew and grew and grew. I need to update and edit it, but... Daiya On 10/27/06 6:56 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Forget my silly post. That webpage is *brilliant* Daiya! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Just one proviso. I find, working as an editor, that commercial publishers
do not want books structured per se, but only the raw text (possibly with coded headings and subheadings), which they then flow into their own systems. But for self-publishing this looks ideal. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, it's just a collection of other people's brilliant links, but thanks. For a while last year or the year before there were a number of frequent requests for such information, so I started by just compiling the links, and then it grew and grew and grew. I need to update and edit it, but... Daiya On 10/27/06 6:56 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Forget my silly post. That webpage is *brilliant* Daiya! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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That's the difference between a manuscript and a book. The inquiries we get
here are very rarely from writers who have found a commercial publisher for their books; if they had, they would have guidelines from the publisher they were looking to meet. I'm currently dealing with a client for whom I copyedited and formatted a manuscript, and that's emphatically all it was. The last time I gave it back to him, I stressed that I had done all I could, and I was through with it (it's a terrible book, and I really wanted to walk away). Unfortunately, he's a fellow Rotarian, a stroke survivor (that's what the book is about), and I don't want to hurt his feelings. Now he's back at me wanting to know (if I understand his poorly phrased question) how to remove the header from the document for publication. I told him to just send the ms to the publisher and let the publisher worry about it. He said he's self-publishing. In that case, I told him, you need a book, not a ms. The problem, I suspect, is that he's publishing through one of these online POD publishers, who undoubtedly have specific submission guidelines, which I could presumably meet if I knew what they were, but I have no intention of handing out answers to vague questions at a Rotary meeting when I'm otherwise *very* busy. I told him, "Now is not the time," but I guess I should really get back to him and see if I can meet his needs (despite my early disclaimers). It's just that every time I get his file back, he's crapped it up with a lot of direct formatting because he doesn't know how to deal with the styles I carefully used. sigh -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "aalaan" wrote in message ... Just one proviso. I find, working as an editor, that commercial publishers do not want books structured per se, but only the raw text (possibly with coded headings and subheadings), which they then flow into their own systems. But for self-publishing this looks ideal. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, it's just a collection of other people's brilliant links, but thanks. For a while last year or the year before there were a number of frequent requests for such information, so I started by just compiling the links, and then it grew and grew and grew. I need to update and edit it, but... Daiya On 10/27/06 6:56 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Forget my silly post. That webpage is *brilliant* Daiya! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Well, even before self-publishing, Word's features offer some value. The
ability to use outline view is really helpful in organizing thoughts. I don't do numbering, but if one is sending around the manuscript or chapters for feedback, numbering, cross-references, etc are important. And one usually sends a printed manuscript to try to get a publisher to accept it (I think?) and then those things are useful even if the press wipes them out later. But it's really sort of aimed at dissertation writers, because that's what I was when I put the links together. Daiya On 10/28/06 1:07 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Just one proviso. I find, working as an editor, that commercial publishers do not want books structured per se, but only the raw text (possibly with coded headings and subheadings), which they then flow into their own systems. But for self-publishing this looks ideal. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, it's just a collection of other people's brilliant links, but thanks. For a while last year or the year before there were a number of frequent requests for such information, so I started by just compiling the links, and then it grew and grew and grew. I need to update and edit it, but... Daiya On 10/27/06 6:56 PM, "aalaan" wrote: Forget my silly post. That webpage is *brilliant* Daiya! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Quickly? If you invest some time into setting your document, you can get all the TOC, Index, etc to create and update very quickly. This page has an overview of the general process, and links to related articles. So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 10/27/06 1:59 PM, "Barry" wrote: How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry |
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In other words, the famous 'Organise prelims and aftermatter' function.
"Barry" wrote in message ... How can I use Word to set up a book with Table of Contents, Chapters, Page Numbers, Headers, Footers, Images, Glossary, and Index? Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks, Barry |
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