Thanks for this! I'm looking to get into fanbinding, and I feel like creating the typeset is the most intimidating part, so this was really helpful! Just a note: Instead of hitting enter a bunch of times to separate chapters, you should use a page or section break. If you just hit enter a bunch, any changes you make to sizing above that point will affect the placement of everything after that. Separating everything with breaks keeps that from happening, so changing the size of the coffee pic in chapter 1, for instance, won't affect where chapter 2 starts on the page. Also! if you use section breaks, you can do unique page headers for each chapter, if that's a thing you want to do. (you know, that thing where you'll have the title of the book on one page & the title of the chapter on the other.)
Thankyou so much for the tips, it's bitter sweet that this video gets alot of views now because this is me THREE YEATS AGO and I have drastically changed my typesetting methods and don't do the same stupid stuff that I do in this video 😭 All the stuff you mentioned I do do in my typesets now and highly recommend them to others aswell 😂 But even if this was a very out of date video im glad it helped you a bit
Inside 3 minutes I already see 2 MAJOR problems in the technique that will bite you. I don't know what the latest microsoft offering will do, but in my preferred Libre Office there are 2 tools that will save you a lot of headaches once you understand them: - Stylesheets. Don't directly style text. Instead specify each paragraph as title, header, body text, etc. Then in the stylesheet specify how those styles are displayed. That way if you change your mind on styling you just change the stylesheet, rather than finding EVERYTHING in the document to change. - Master Documents. A wrapper around a collection of documents containing chapters and other major elements. The master document also contains a stylesheet for the whole collection. Very useful if you want to edit in smaller pieces, or make multiple editions with different sets of chapters or stylesheets.
Thank you for having done this! I didn't really know where to begin looking for tutorials about typesetting fanfics! So wonderful of you to take the time.
Much easier if you turn on the paragraph marks and other symbols, too. You can see where and how various spaces have been put in and avoid formatting frustrations. Not using section or page breaks but filling the spaces with paragraph marks makes controlling layout easier and printing, too.
This is so amazingly helpful! thank you for sharing this. What margin sizes did you use? I'm looking to print on A4 paper, but not sure how big/small to make the page margins
thank you for this video! it was really helpful! 💖still I have a question, at the end of the book how many white pages should I add (as at the beginning we added 4 before the one with chapter 1)?
For page numbers I always have to use Adobe Acrobat as the way word sets up page numbers is always very finicky. I have a tutorial for this on my patreon 🌷 💕
This is super helpful! Thank you! I'm an author and was thinking of doing some special edition handbound prints of some of my books (15th anniversary coming up soon). Do you have a follow-up video somewhere of how you set the page size and mirrored margins? I just subscribed :)
Hi! I'm so glad this video helped you, I am planning a follow up video for margins and paper sizing ect ect but in the mean time if you really want more content I do have a patreon where I have my margins listed at the moment. But one will come here in the future too 💕
Hi! I definitely would recommend Word for binds especially of your just starting out. But google docs is also a great free option, not too sure why it's changing formats on you when you swap devices so I'm afraid I can really help you out there 😅
Like coffee cup style and font choices. When it comes to paragraphs there should not be a space between paragraphs and indents. It should one or the other but not both. If you go for indents the indent size is one capital M size...not 1/2 inch or 1/4 inch. Hope this helps you.
I guess when it comes to home made books its up to what you prefer, personally I like there to be more space because its easier to read. Thats the benefit of home made books and being creative
so, say i did an entire typset without formatting for booklet in word first... is this a problem? i just finished mine after watching this tutorial and every time i go to try to make it into a booklet, (with all the suggestions from your printing video) EVERYTHING gets jumbled up. please tell me i can fix this :(
Hi! Im not quite sure what you are referring to when you say 'booklet' but if you are referring to the margins, then yes it will move everything if you change it after formatting if you dint do this step at the start. If you mean sorting it into signatures (how many pages you fold, that become ordered after folding them) then you have to do this step attention very end anyway and it will look like your pages are all jumbled around. That is normal because when we fold them together the page numbers end up making sense. Watch my video on how to print and use typesets to see what I mean. If these 2 options are jot what you mean by booklet then please feel free to contact me on ig and send a video of what you mean and I'll have a batter idea of what you mean 🌷💕
im on a mac and so in order to get it to the formatting you use in your printing video, (im going straight from a typed word doc) it has me do margins>booklet, to get it landscape and a two page spread. (instead of the portrait, normal word doc i typed everything in) i added art and stuff in, so it gets all jumbled and not looking right when i try to make it a spread for printing. sorry i didnt exactly know how to word it cause im so new to this! but yes i guess i am going to have to move things around again!! 😅thank you for your help and your tutorials, please keep making them!!@@beautifullybound
Do you have microsoft 365 because my microsoft doesn't look the same. I don't have the multiple pages or the page insert or whatever i only have a page break. I don't get it an its incredably fustrating.
@beautifullybound that sucks..I'm trying to typeset a fanfic right now. Keeps freezing. I have to enter it chapter by chapter...and I can't insert the whole book because it will freeze. So I have to separate it into two documents. Man it sucks...but imma do it. Regardless of all my troubles. Your video is helpful. Even if I can't get do everything as exacting...but Wish me luck.
I totally get what you mean, when I was typesetting on my macbook air it would just blow up whenever i tried to typeset more then one chapter at a time 😢
Indesign is way way easier to use than Word...but you do have a lot to learn for beginners. But once you learn Indesign, it saves a lot of headaches, It's worth it.
@@veganbutterfly3652my thoughts exactly. set up some grep search & replace rules, set a handful of character & paragraph styles, place text. in 10 seconds, you've got a chapter formatted. automate chapter numbering, page numbering, the layout of the page. write 1 legalese template for fonts used, publishing info, binding info, materials used, etc, and you just copypasta that to every book you make. word is a word processor, NOT a design tool. accessible =/= good or easy.
Not everyone can afford InDesign, nor are they obliged to go hunting for the cracked version and risk downloading a malware 🤡 I think it's pretty cool she decided to use MS Word, especially because there's no need in go all professional when you're typesetting a fanfic 😮💨
Awww thankyou, this tutorial definitely needs to be updated because my methods have changed so much since releasing this video but I'm still so glad it helps people in their bookbinding journey 💕🌷
Thanks for this! I'm looking to get into fanbinding, and I feel like creating the typeset is the most intimidating part, so this was really helpful!
Just a note: Instead of hitting enter a bunch of times to separate chapters, you should use a page or section break. If you just hit enter a bunch, any changes you make to sizing above that point will affect the placement of everything after that. Separating everything with breaks keeps that from happening, so changing the size of the coffee pic in chapter 1, for instance, won't affect where chapter 2 starts on the page.
Also! if you use section breaks, you can do unique page headers for each chapter, if that's a thing you want to do. (you know, that thing where you'll have the title of the book on one page & the title of the chapter on the other.)
Thankyou so much for the tips, it's bitter sweet that this video gets alot of views now because this is me THREE YEATS AGO and I have drastically changed my typesetting methods and don't do the same stupid stuff that I do in this video 😭
All the stuff you mentioned I do do in my typesets now and highly recommend them to others aswell 😂
But even if this was a very out of date video im glad it helped you a bit
this is beyond helpful, thank you so much!! im attempting to bind my favorite fan fic rn so this was such a blessing to see :D
Inside 3 minutes I already see 2 MAJOR problems in the technique that will bite you.
I don't know what the latest microsoft offering will do, but in my preferred Libre Office there are 2 tools that will save you a lot of headaches once you understand them:
- Stylesheets. Don't directly style text. Instead specify each paragraph as title, header, body text, etc. Then in the stylesheet specify how those styles are displayed. That way if you change your mind on styling you just change the stylesheet, rather than finding EVERYTHING in the document to change.
- Master Documents. A wrapper around a collection of documents containing chapters and other major elements. The master document also contains a stylesheet for the whole collection. Very useful if you want to edit in smaller pieces, or make multiple editions with different sets of chapters or stylesheets.
Can you explain better? Maybe make a video? I am really slow on this stuff and want to learn
Wow this is so good and clear!
Thank you for having done this! I didn't really know where to begin looking for tutorials about typesetting fanfics! So wonderful of you to take the time.
Glad I was able to help 💕🌷
Much easier if you turn on the paragraph marks and other symbols, too. You can see where and how various spaces have been put in and avoid formatting frustrations. Not using section or page breaks but filling the spaces with paragraph marks makes controlling layout easier and printing, too.
This is so amazingly helpful! thank you for sharing this. What margin sizes did you use? I'm looking to print on A4 paper, but not sure how big/small to make the page margins
thank you for this video! it was really helpful! 💖still I have a question, at the end of the book how many white pages should I add (as at the beginning we added 4 before the one with chapter 1)?
Thank you very much for this content! It's greatly helpful! ☺️💘
Glad it was helpful!
You're very dexterous at this.
This is amazing!! 😍😍 Also, I was anxious seeing you didn't have autosave on 😂
I like to live on the edge
Great tutorial. Thank you so much. For those of us who only have Word this has been brilliant. How would you add page numbers ? 😊
For page numbers I always have to use Adobe Acrobat as the way word sets up page numbers is always very finicky. I have a tutorial for this on my patreon 🌷 💕
Hi! could you explain how to do nice page numbers and at the bottom of every page, little symbols please? thank you!
Hello! I’m new to this and looking for tutorials. How big is this page size and margins you use? Thanks!
Hi! My paper size is A4 and I usually put it in mirrored margins with 0.5-0.7 gutter 💕
This is super helpful! Thank you! I'm an author and was thinking of doing some special edition handbound prints of some of my books (15th anniversary coming up soon). Do you have a follow-up video somewhere of how you set the page size and mirrored margins? I just subscribed :)
Hi! I'm so glad this video helped you, I am planning a follow up video for margins and paper sizing ect ect but in the mean time if you really want more content I do have a patreon where I have my margins listed at the moment. But one will come here in the future too 💕
Hi! Can you please write me on which page do you do this little images, for example the coffee cup under the title 😊 thank you❤
Hi! I like to have an image on my title page and one at the start of each chapter 💕🌷 and then possibly a little one for the page breaks
So, I use Google Docs for my bindings but every time I swap devices, the format changes. Is Word a more recommended way to format books?
Hi! I definitely would recommend Word for binds especially of your just starting out. But google docs is also a great free option, not too sure why it's changing formats on you when you swap devices so I'm afraid I can really help you out there 😅
Like coffee cup style and font choices.
When it comes to paragraphs there should not be a space between paragraphs and indents. It should one or the other but not both. If you go for indents the indent size is one capital M size...not 1/2 inch or 1/4 inch. Hope this helps you.
I guess when it comes to home made books its up to what you prefer, personally I like there to be more space because its easier to read. Thats the benefit of home made books and being creative
so, say i did an entire typset without formatting for booklet in word first... is this a problem? i just finished mine after watching this tutorial and every time i go to try to make it into a booklet, (with all the suggestions from your printing video) EVERYTHING gets jumbled up. please tell me i can fix this :(
Hi! Im not quite sure what you are referring to when you say 'booklet' but if you are referring to the margins, then yes it will move everything if you change it after formatting if you dint do this step at the start. If you mean sorting it into signatures (how many pages you fold, that become ordered after folding them) then you have to do this step attention very end anyway and it will look like your pages are all jumbled around. That is normal because when we fold them together the page numbers end up making sense. Watch my video on how to print and use typesets to see what I mean. If these 2 options are jot what you mean by booklet then please feel free to contact me on ig and send a video of what you mean and I'll have a batter idea of what you mean 🌷💕
im on a mac and so in order to get it to the formatting you use in your printing video, (im going straight from a typed word doc) it has me do margins>booklet, to get it landscape and a two page spread. (instead of the portrait, normal word doc i typed everything in) i added art and stuff in, so it gets all jumbled and not looking right when i try to make it a spread for printing. sorry i didnt exactly know how to word it cause im so new to this! but yes i guess i am going to have to move things around again!! 😅thank you for your help and your tutorials, please keep making them!!@@beautifullybound
Do you have microsoft 365 because my microsoft doesn't look the same. I don't have the multiple pages or the page insert or whatever i only have a page break. I don't get it an its incredably fustrating.
Yes I have Microsoft 365 but also this is on macIOS so it may look different if you are using windows.
@beautifullybound that sucks..I'm trying to typeset a fanfic right now. Keeps freezing. I have to enter it chapter by chapter...and I can't insert the whole book because it will freeze. So I have to separate it into two documents. Man it sucks...but imma do it. Regardless of all my troubles. Your video is helpful. Even if I can't get do everything as exacting...but Wish me luck.
I totally get what you mean, when I was typesetting on my macbook air it would just blow up whenever i tried to typeset more then one chapter at a time 😢
my microsoft word dont look like this. it makes my pages vertical to one another instead of side by side
There's a setting for that, go into view and then tick the box for multiple pages.
Oooh, this is MS Word. I thought it was Affinity Publisher because the layout is black 😯
girl what?? youhave indesign, why are you doing this in word?
I just prefer word, it's also a better software for learners
Indesign is way way easier to use than Word...but you do have a lot to learn for beginners. But once you learn Indesign, it saves a lot of headaches, It's worth it.
@@veganbutterfly3652my thoughts exactly. set up some grep search & replace rules, set a handful of character & paragraph styles, place text. in 10 seconds, you've got a chapter formatted. automate chapter numbering, page numbering, the layout of the page. write 1 legalese template for fonts used, publishing info, binding info, materials used, etc, and you just copypasta that to every book you make.
word is a word processor, NOT a design tool. accessible =/= good or easy.
Not everyone can afford InDesign, nor are they obliged to go hunting for the cracked version and risk downloading a malware 🤡 I think it's pretty cool she decided to use MS Word, especially because there's no need in go all professional when you're typesetting a fanfic 😮💨
@@ngtskynebula that's not what my comment was about, good luck with your persecution complex, peace & love ✌🏻
Wow this is so good and clear!
Awww thankyou, this tutorial definitely needs to be updated because my methods have changed so much since releasing this video but I'm still so glad it helps people in their bookbinding journey 💕🌷