Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace ...and Lulu, using Microsoft Word.

by Tim C. Taylor

“…the content and presentation are excellent and incredibly useful, even though I’ve already written and formatted at least six books using Microsoft Word.” — Patricia West, treeoflifememoirs.com KDP This book was originally written about and published through Createspace. Since then, Createspace has been replaced by KDP Print. The author has migrated his paperback books to the new KDP Print platform and can confirm that the layout guidance in the book applies equally well to KDP Print as it did to Createspace, and always has done for Lulu. 2nd EXTENDED! REVISED! UPDATED! Publishing a print book with Createspace or Lulu is fairly easy. But unless you know how to lay out a book, AND how to achieve the results you want in your word processor, the result won't do your writing justice. In this guide, I will show you how to format your book's * What you need to know about book layout and typesetting to get professional results. * How to use Microsoft Word 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 & 2013 to achieve those results (with notes for Word 2003 users) * eBook how to format your manuscript in Word so you can move easily between print, Kindle, ePUB, and Smashwords editions. ( this is not a comprehensive guide to building eBooks). *NEW! A workflow for publishing a book through Createspace. Follow the workflow and use the cross-references to find the detailed discussion later in the book for each step. *NEW! Answers to the questions about paperback publishing that I am often asked by my book-formatting clients, such how to pick the right trim size, how to set pricing, what kind of ISBN you should use, and how to link print and kindle editions on Amazon. *NEW! The correct way to use paragraph and page breaks in Word. *NEW! Advanced add that final level of polish with subjects such as kerning & OpenType settings, using Unicode code points in paperbacks and eBooks, dot gain & color spaces, faux glyphs and how to avoid them, the perils of transferring Word files between Mac & Windows, and how to republish your back catalog. *NEW! Many more screenshots and diagrams (now 76). All are reproduced in the paperback and eBook editions of this book, and are also available from the book’s website. A note for Mac users. Screenshots are taken from Windows editions of Word, but references are made to any significant Mac differences ( keyboard shortcut differences, selecting fonts, and the PDF print capability built into OS X). I can't reproduce the contents page here as it is too long for the space permitted in this description. Try using the 'Look Inside' feature by clicking on the book cover image at the top-left of the screen.

298 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2012

About the author

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Tim C. Taylor lives with his family in an ancient village in England. When he was an impressionable boy, between 1977 and 1978, he encountered several mind-altering substances: 2000AD, Star Wars, Blake's 7, and Dungeons & Dragons. Consequently, he now writes science fiction novels for a living.

Reviews

[Victoria Ichizli-Bartels · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've used Scrivener for Windows for pre-formatting my book for Createspace. Then I exported it as Paperback novel into Word and followed advice from the book. Declaring styles, dividing the text into sections and formatting only first pages of sections, then let the rest inherit the styling, an many other tricks are simply brilliant and all wonderfully illustrated both in text and with screenshots. I read it as e-book and could still understand the screenshots well. Opening it on my computer helped even more. There are even advices for e-book formatting with Word, which I didn't use, but were still quite revealing and helpful.

I learned a lot about formatting and publishing world in this book. Highly recommendable!