When I read that sometimes
centring doesn’t stick and that you can fiddle with the settings to add
something to Normal I freaked. It is
terrifying to think that settings could be mashed beyond recognition and your
life would become a nightmare. So I saved the document under yet another name
and set out on this adventure…three minutes later I was punching air and
whispering, Get in. Done it. I am
very happy with this self, that she can read instructions and go away to let
them stew in her brain for a few days so that on return and with a little
courage she can do the deed.
I only centred the title page
and the Table of Contents; I didn’t
want to fiddle with page widths to make the copyright page centred – that would
be a bridge just too far. So, with that success behind me I went straight on to
the task of hyperlinking the Table of
Contents – eek! But it was easy. I’d read the instructions last week and
last night again and all that was left to do was go for it. Yes, I made a
couple of mistakes and had to go back and do them again; that was because there
were quite a few poem titles beginning with the same word, and the instructions
said you only needed the first word to be listed…but they also explain a
scenario where you captalise the first letter of every word but leave out the
spaces – TheRightThingToDo as an
example.
All the formatting is done. So
today, I will be sweeping over each poem in case any of them need a little
tweak with the last hug. I think I’m just going to put the book up at Amazon first – I can do Smashwords later if I want…small steps. I’ll
be back, perhaps waving a big link.
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