How to Format a Book in Word | A Step-by-Step Tutorial

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You are literally the only writing KZbinr I watch as all the others are so pretentious. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air

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Agreed, many of them are quite stuck on themselves. Vivien presents the information with class and leaves her ego off screen. Thank you, Vivien, for that.

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Agreed! She is so smart, so relatable and professional without being a snot! 😬

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

Formatting books is an artform I swear. You make it look beautiful.

[@uncannysin]

Okay, so, I wrote a short story when I was 16, and a couple years later, at 11pm, I have impulsively decided to turn it into a full book...

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[@nemo5683]

All the best!!

[@LilMuffin18]

Wishing you the best of luck

[@uncannysin]

@@LilMuffin18 Thank you, I didn’t get very far 🤣 I think I’ll stick to short stories

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[@makdatech]

I don’t usually comment on videos, but this one deserves it. Thank you so much! Your explanation was incredibly clear and detailed in all the right ways. When I had no guidance and found the task of uploading and publishing my book overwhelming, I stumbled upon your video. It’s been almost three years since I published my poetry book To Be Whole, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the help your video provided. Wishing you all the best-have an amazing holiday season!

[@CassTeaElle]

I cannot even express how incredibly grateful I am for this video. Seriously, thank you so much! When I wrote my first book like 4 years ago, I tried to format it myself and I was in tears wanting to just smash my computer to bits. I ended up hiring a formatter, but I was really unhappy with not being able to easily go in and fix something if I noticed a mistake or wanted to change the backmatter of my books. So I'm SOOOO happy to have such a great tutorial now that I'm learning how to do it myself again! No tears this time around, and it looks beautiful!

[@pragyashashidharan7098]

The steps were really easy to follow. I formatted my book 'The Gem of Portia' with no problem. Thanks for sharing!

[@majaserve3112]

Thank you for this video. You answered a lot of questions I had. I looked through tons of other videos without getting the questions answered. You did an amazing job at keeping it simple. Seeing how you navigated the changes that you didn't want and fixed it to what you wanted was really helpful. I am so grateful to you taking the time to show make this video and posting it on the KZbin platform. You are appreciated!

[@roaakordeir]

This is the video I was just looking for because I’m writing a novel and the manuscript is on word. Thank you 🙏🏾 😊

[@qazi.bilal2.0]

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[@ioanaberbece8137]

Honestly, this is the clearest instructions for how to format a book in Word. And I've watched many, many videos trying to understand how to do it well. A few years late, but thank you!

[@adleneboulebtateche156]

Disabling the Widow/Orphan control is the tip I've been looking for for many years. I asked a thousand pro guys ho to make even and odd pages look the same like in published books and no one gave me a helpful answer. Thank you very much indeed.

[@artistikworld4058]

They would loose money if they told you, I guess?😂

[@mslgaisie]

I am so grateful for this video! I had been trying to format my self-published book for over a month (I may have cried a few times) and after watching your video it finally clicked...thank you so much, and I really love your videos! :-)

[@kizvjmoncrieff]

I am starting my own Writing channel, and as an aspiring writer not an author there are several things I don't know yet and formatting my book is one I've always known parts but not as a whole, so this was so helpful.

[@robyna.7535]

I feel I actually need to comment as many times as I’ve watched this. I first came across this video when trying to learn how to format for my self published novel almost 2 years ago. The first time I was a bit lost but thankful to have found you! Since then, I’ve edited and formatted SOOO many novels for others and still find myself coming back here for the basics! Love this content, thanks for taking the time to create this! ❤️❤️🤞🏾

[@katrinastrickland3320]

I came across your video on a whim, and I'm so glad I did. Thank you so much. You took the stress out of this process. Out of all the videos I have watched, your video was the only one that helped.

[@blancaoropesa3490]

I am Cuban and I live in the United States and I owe you, in part, the publication of my first novel, because with your tutorial I learned to lay out the book. Thank you very much.

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[@glorywithoutwalls]

When Im pasting into this template my interior text is showing up under my headings in navigation bar how do I stop this from happening? Thank you!

[@pfcwilson1313]

Thank you!

[@penseale]

Vivien Reis Can we choose the font prior to typing so we do not have to change it after?

[@stoner_mane]

Hi...I have a question...I can type out everything first then go back in and instert page numbers etc? And is the formatting displayed apply to ebooks?

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[@joelschneider7353]

Your tutorial on formatting is they only video that I understood easily. Thank you.

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[@pippacostello9481]

Vivien, from ghe bottom of my little, writer heart: Thank. You. So. Much. This is actually the most helpful formatting video I can find, for my level of computer know-how.

[@VivienReis]

I'm so glad it helped!!

[@WediDebas]

I don't have words even to express my grateful for this video. Thank you so much.

[@j_maynard]

This saved me so much. I was getting so mad when thing weren't cooperating and doing funky things. Thank you vivien your a life saver.

[@LxstinNeverland]

😭 YOU'RE A LIFESAVER. I've been struggling for 3+ hours to start my numbers at a later page for front matter but nobody helped me. I finally understand!

[@Mrs_Adams]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I cannot begin to tell you how much this video saved me! I am so grateful for it and you! You're wonderful Vivien!

[@thewrestlingchick-tamara]

After doing some research on book sizes for print I actually know what your talking about. Now I can fix and format my novel in word. Thank you so much for doing this 🤘

[@harulestokeswrites]

FYI - Scribus is a free desktop publisher, but there's a big learning curve in its use. But, in terms of functionality, it's awesome and extremely stable. Great vid Vivien!

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Thank you so much to all the books publishing group, everybody is in progress quickly within eight months ago, I remember all of you before eight months ago all are busy in Party and enjoying too, but now I am seeing that keeping their minds on one way and doing sincerely well and good job.So I just take a glance how much all of you are and everything is going good with all of us it is a best time we are passing the days. thanks again for your helping hand to me in my channel and in my progress.

[@Jennifer-eo7yd]

you are so awesome!!!! I finally learned how to format a book for word thanks to you! thanks.

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[@katenugent9825]

You saved me from a breakdown when I formatted my first book. Thank you!

[@nick0126]

excellent! Hard to believe this extremely useful tutorial is almost impossible to find elsewhere. Grazie Mille!

[@acrock21]

my question was answered at 7:30 regarding back matter header and footing delete.... THANK YOU!!!

[@isaacruddell7940]

I watched the top few videos. Yours was the best, at least for me! Thank you

[@itsliv5555]

YOU ARE A FRICKEN LIFE SAVIOR! THE TEMPLET IS GENIOUS THANKYOU!

[@samanthafair8740]

Thank the lord I got this figured out. I always have trouble with headers and page numbers. This has been super helpful and I'm sure I'll view it many more times until I get the hang of it.

[@mlhrlmah]

This is genuinely the most helpful video of all time when I say I owe u my life I mean it

[@Spirit-FilledMindset]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I've been writing a book on and off for 4 years now and tried to do some formatting early on. It seemed like such a pain and so I stopped and finally finished the book a week ago. This was the first formatting video I came across and it helped so much. It took me about 1-2 days to get it looking professional.

[@beckreynolds]

This was so helpful, I’ve been writing since I was 8 and I’m 23 now and finally have an idea that I’m actually serious about. Thank you :)

[@NoMoreBound2018]

I just want to say, thank you so much for your time. It helped me tremendously. Bless you.

[@rayrwise5728]

one of the best formatting vids out there

[@favored9]

i am new to formatting my manuscripts. And this video was awesome. I have learned so much in 2 days.

[@caratcake7704]

You're a life saver. I was looking at other ways to simply format and once upon a time I even went through the horror of fixing formatting problems when I had no clue what I was doing. Now it can look well put together as I believe my stories deserve

[@ohsotrue03]

One of the best most informative videos ever. And I watched a lot. Thanks so much!!

[@letslearn4039]

I haven't watched the whole video but I'm going to watch it later as it is amazing. The way you're doing it is actually going to help us. Thanks!

[@VivienReis]

Thank you for the lovely comment!!

[@letslearn4039]

@@VivienReis you're welcome! Hope I'm gonna learn from you .

[@toshaymiller_author]

I wish I had this video last year. It took me such a long time to figure Word formatting out. I'm glad you did a video on this video. It's going to help lots of people. 📚🤗

[@braleyneale5267]

Yes, indeed.

[@vipragupta2144]

I am going to try this right away. Have been frastrated with formatting and cannot have it done from a professional. Your instructions are clear and I hope they will let me finish this odious task by tonight. Love your no-nonsense style. Thank you!! 😊👍

[@vipragupta348]

*frustrated

[@ministeronaldstimphil5448]

Thank you, Vivien. You did a real good job. I actually formatted my first book using MS Word, but it has been so long (2010), and I did not keep the info. Therefore, your video was very helpful in reminding me some of the stuff I knew and teaching me some of the stuff I did not know. Thanks again. God bless you!

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Oh my days your channel is the best, u give great advice, ur so pretty and a I love the sound of ur voice

[@VivienReis]

Aw, thank you so much!!

[@artgalore8202]

I am so glad that I found you. It's late so I will have to go back through this tomorrow. My first novel was a nightmare trying to format. I can't even remember how I made it through, but I did. I self pub'd on LULU and they have the 6x9 format template. I really want to be able to do it all myself and tweak it as I need it. I have several writing projects coming up and I need brush up! Thanks and you have a new subbie!

[@braleyneale5267]

I've published! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! It is out for sale now, all nice and formatted just right! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I've got the info I need in case i forget!

[@VivienReis]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! 🎊💐🎉

[@braleyneale5267]

@@VivienReis Thanks! I'm going to use this for my second one too!

[@micasasucasa95]

I loved the video! it was helpful but I was able to watch the whole thing and stay focused by playing some lofi-inspirational music in the background!

[@Old52Guy]

You have done a great job with the workbook and the template! Great interface and intuitive controls. I have tried other templates and programs and have found them somewhat cumbersome. I am sure they work for others but yours definitely works for me. Thanks!

[@sarahfenlonfalk]

This was extremely helpful as was the free template! Thank you! Hope all is well with you!

[@ThePrettyArcher]

But how do you add new chapters after chapter 5 bc the formatting is different after that

[@kylie_h1978]

The quicker way to do it would have just to have changed the style of the normal text. You could have changed the font, font size, indents justification, and line spacing in the style and then it would have applied it to all text of that style, and would not have changed the headings at all. :)

[@SuperOlivegrove]

Kylie H how do you change the text to your own words

[@ThePrettyArcher]

How do you add new chapters after chapter 5 bc the formatting is different after that.

[@theawakecoach]

Thanks so much for the template, V, Respect to you from Southern California.

[@thekamiakai]

For formatting, you can either change the styles and anything that is set to that style will automatically change, but that is on the newer Word. On all words there is a little paint brush, if you have the ribbons then it will be under the clipboard. You select the style you like, double click the paintbrush then quickly select the text you want to have in that style. If you only want it once you just click the paintbrush once. Page breaks = CTRL + ENTER Also if you justify short paragraphs (between 2 and five words) it will add weird spacing between the words. You have to make sure that those paragraphs are left aligned or it will be weird looking.

[@7986bigd]

Good tutorial. With the Chapter title and number formatting, you could use Format Painter instead of copying and changing it manually. 11:45 it's the paint brush by the cut, copy, and paste functions.

[@mggilleshope6828]

Thank you so much. Slowed you down, that was so helpful . Just what I needed.

[@emilyf7245]

thank you so much! definately one of the best formatting videos. imma subscribe

[@jchacon9362]

At 11:16, you explain that you copy the format for the beggining of each chaoater and past it so that it matches for the 2nd chapter (hope that makes sense). On your Home tab, there is a tool that says Format Painter. If you highlightwhat you want and click Format Painter, then take it to chapter 2 and highlight the area you want to change, it will change it for you with the format for Chapter 1. If this doesn't make sense, look up how to use format painter. Thanks for the informative video, it was very helpful.

[@100chuckjones]

You are an absolute book nerd. And I love it ! You are super easy to follow along with. You speak quickly, (this is great for people who get bored easily). But you explain things thoroughly. I've just written my first book. It is fiction but also includes important dates in history. Such as these fictional characters attend real concerts on those exact days, etc. I completed my first book which was 300 pages (takes place in 2006 to present). then I began writing the prequel (the parents of the characters from the first book, that one takes place in the 1980's). This is something I've always wanted to do. I just turned 50 and I'm a badass, i know shit about this book writing thing. I wrote the rough sketch, then I used Chat GPT to help me with the "He said.. She said" and expressions. I'm not a huge fan of Chat GPT, though. it just tries to add way to much filler. i probably shouldn't written that, it's probably watching to me right now 🙂. I want to put these books in paperback, i just don't know where to start. I wrote it in google docs, then transferred it to Word. Your suggestion about using titles for easy navigation is frigan key !! A marvelous idea. It's something I did in G Docs since the first page. Thank you for the video.

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i like what you are doing, seriously. I'll share my novel with you when am done

[@michaeltodd3067]

Thanks. Picked up some very useful tips. Very grateful.

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Thanks i really needed that😍 i had no idea what to do or what size is right for novel❤️

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Holy Smokes! You must be brilliant to understand all of this!

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I have no words... THANKS SO MUCH

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Thanks a zillion for the free template ma’am 😊

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[@lexyprice4753]

If you want to change your font size quickly you can use body text style on one paragraph and then update all body text (might be called normal) to match selection. It's a right click on the style menu

[@englishliterature6056]

It really help me Vivien. Thank you 💕

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Beautiful easy to follow vid. Thank You.

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Thanks so much for the template and detailed explanation.

[@a.r.walker_art]

I've been looking for a good video on this and yours REALLY helped. Thank you ^~^

[@MikeSong123]

I am sure you noticed that your gs are getting cut off on the bottom. I adjusted the page height to 13.85 and that solved the problem. But I was wondering why that happens in the first place at the 14 per line setting. This video is fantastic. You are a treasure.

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Awesome ! You’re totally naturally! Super helpful!

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Now this is what I was looking for, Lets GOooo!!!! Thank you ViVien!!!!😊😁

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Absolutely brilliant, thank you. I'm glad I found your channel.

[@jupiter-ym7cv]

EEE!!! I'm making a book called 'The Magic Garden' and this video is helping me alot! Thank you~

[@SupernovaGalaxia]

Woah! A Gachatuber that writes books like me xD

[@jupiter-ym7cv]

@@SupernovaGalaxia Heh, thanks! No one has said something as nice to me before, thanks!

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@@jupiter-ym7cv Why isn't anyone nice to you? You seem like a great person

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@@SupernovaGalaxia Well because I'm kinda a nerd and I usally get bullied alot because I was born with a sensitive problem..

[@SupernovaGalaxia]

@@jupiter-ym7cv Aww :( But it's completely okay though! Take it in a positive way! You're born with a sensitive problem, but no one there has this problem. Sounds like a bad thing? Just take it positively and say that you're unique! Just because you read and write doesn't mean you're a nerd. You're perfect. And you know, it's better to have bullies than fake friends... Be happy, though I might not know you or have ever seen you, I'm here for you :)

[@Ardeact]

I one thing I needed to know was "Justify" thanks for the tutorial

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Thank you so much for this. It's perfect for what I want to do.

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Thank you so much for the template! :)

[@aaronmclaughlin1995]

Thank you SO helpful! BTW you can use CTRL+A to select all of your text at the same time.

[@arissakavyadeosaran4269]

I just made a book thanks to you

[@TheSlyRise]

This was so great. Love you. Love the help. Formatting was kind of daunting and now I understand it better. Thanks

[@mattias9095]

Thank you! I'm very grateful for the template and explanation

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

This is HUGELY helpful!! THANK YOU!!!! Highlighting work and then toying with it scares me silly. I HAVE erased pages of work by accident. (emoji: beating head against wall) .

[@mitchbarnett3523]

Submissive 😂😂😂 Great video! I actually raised my font and changed the margin and totally screwed myself when I first started my book. Now I am just adjusting everything in chapter 8 and this helped a lot, you have no idea! Thank you!!!!

[@sofis6882]

Hi Vivien, thanks for sharing! This is really helpful.

[@JelTaTech]

Thank you very much this was very helpful. Been looking for this detailed approach to using Microsoft word for publishing

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Where did you find that beautiful wallpaper?

[@abrahamgiliana]

Hi. Isn't better to utilize Styles? I think it would make the process whole lot smoother. Please correct me if I'm wrong. And yes, yoy are the best out of all others I have watched for this subject; very honest too. Thank you.

[@mkultraman1138]

Thank you so much for this, Vivien. Exactly what I needed.

[@mdshibli1009]

Brilliant girl brilliant tutorial

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You you got a gift my friend. Excellent video.

[@denzelpitchford6573]

Thank you this was a great help to me while I was formatting my book

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Thanks for the template!

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Glade I came across this video. You're a lifesaver, thank you!

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Super helpful!! Thank you so much for making this video!!

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This was awesome! I'm sharing it to one of my social media groups!

[@nobordersenglish]

Thank you, Vivien. You're an angel.

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Champ! thanks for the template and the instructional vid

[@QuinnBuckland]

Thank you so very much for this tutorial. This really helped me in formatting my novel.

[@LilacDaisy2]

I don't think I'll ever get Scriviner figured out, so this was a great video for me. Ta!