![]() Or, set the second paragraph style first, and then paste your text into that paragraph to keep the style.) Make your book beautiful. You can just redefine the current style so it applies to most of your text. I do the same for the next paragraph, but setting an indent, and saving it as "Normal." (When you pasted your text in, it probably already had a style assigned by default. Then I'll save it as a new style, "NoIndent." Then I'll open that style and adjust the "Indents and spacing" so there's actually no indent. If I make changes to the text on the page, I can highlight it, hit the little box inside the Paragraph Styles panel again and choose "Redefine Style" so that my changes are automatically applied to the style.įor the first paragraph, I'm going to set the font to Sabon, 11pt, with 18pt line spacing. I change the font to "Lato" to match the cover, then saved it as "Scene" (because in this book, the subtitle describe the scene). I'll do the same thing for the subtitle, increasing the font size, making sure the text is centered. If I want to edit the style for all chapter headings, I'll click on the style in the Paragraph Styles panel and adjust things (for example, I'll probably want the letters to be spaced out a bit, so I can go to "basic character formats" and increase the "tracking.") Now "Header1" shows up under my Paragraph Styles - next time I get to a chapter heading, I'll just highlight it and hit that style. I'm going to save this as a "new paragraph style" rename it "header1." Then I'll highlight the text again, and hit the little panel button on the top right of the Paragraph Styles panel (right under the X to close the panel). I'll highlight the "Chapter One" text and set it to Trajan Pro, all caps to match the cover. (If that doesn't happen, I'll tell you how to fix it later.) Pages should automatically be added, so that the rest of the text is pushed down to the end of the document. The first thing I'm going to do is copy the first chapter of my book (from the Word file, or wherever you have it), and paste it into the first paragraph of the InDesign file. Here's the link to the template I'm using in case you're following along: I'm going to match the style with this cover I made for I'm going to start with a very simple, basic InDesign Book Template. These videos should help you get started, or use the guide down below. If you have your book ready and send them the fonts and clear instructions (along with a template) it should cost less than $100.īut it's nice to have InDesign and know how to use it, so that I can later make small changes or fix typos without having to go back to my designer each time. I recommend hiring someone on to do the initial formatting. Even so, InDesign can be frustratingly complex. That way we'll skip a lot of technical stuff you don't really need to know about. Rather than starting from scratch, this guide to InDesign formatting will assume you're using one of my InDesign book templates. If you're self-publishing, it'll save you a lot of time and money. Make sure to visit the homepage and sign up for the free package of formatting templates.
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