Highlight the text that you want to turn into a link.Link Each Item in your ToC to the Appropriate Bookmark If you have a hierarchical ToC, you can indent as needed too (see below). These should be the same as would appear in a printed ToC, without the page numbers. Enter the Title of Each Item on your ToC PageĮnter each heading that needs to appear in your ToC on a separate line. TIP: You will also need to bookmark the heading of the ToC page itself, and give it the name “TOC.” This enables Amazon to locate the ToC page so that the Kindle device or app can reference it. You cannot use spaces in the bookmark name. or a shortened form of the Chapter title. If you are using numbered chapters, you can use “Ch1,” “Ch2,” etc. You will then have to enter a name for the bookmark and click the Add button. Place the cursor at the beginning of each Chapter or Section heading and click on the Insert > Bookmark menu option (which appears within the Links group. Bookmark Each Section/Chapter that Will Appear in the ToC Kindle books are required to have a Table of Contents. The final essential step is to create your Table of Contents (ToC), which you will do in 3 easy parts. Used carriage returns to add spacing between content – unless you simply need one blank line between paragraphs, remove the extraneous carriage returns and use the Spacing: Before/After options to add the required spacing.
#TABLE OF CONTENTS NOT APPEARING IN KINDLE PREVIEWER FULL#
To do this, click on the Layout menu and either use the Indents and Spacing options, or click on the arrow in the bottom right corner to bring up the full formatting dialog box:
– if you’ve used Tabs or multiple Spaces to indent the first line of your paragraphs, or to move text to a specific position on the page, you will need to remove them and use Word’s paragraph formatting functionality instead. Used Tabs or Multiple Spaces to create indents, etc. If you’ve done either of the following, you will need to use Word’s in-built paragraph formatting functionality. Replace “Typewriter” Formatting with Word Formatting Amazon advises centering the title, subtitle (if any), and author name at the top of page, as follows: Fixed-Page-Size FormattingĪs mentioned in Part 1 of this article, you may have pages with text deliberately spaced to fit near the top and bottom of a page, which is commonly found on title pages. If you find, when previewing your book, that your bulleted lists are not formatted correctly (usually as a result of fully justifying the text, which leads to spacing issues), change the list to standard paragraphs, perhaps beginning each paragraph with a hyphen or other character. Kindle sometimes has problems with bulleted lists. Step 4: Fix Layout Issues Bulleted Lists: a Kindle Oddity Today, we’ll be covering Steps 4-5, which discuss more layout issues, creating a Kindle table of contents, and some final considerations. This followed on from part 1, in which we looked at some initial considerations when preparing a manuscript for Kindle. Last time, in part 2 of this series, we covered Steps 1-3 of the 5 steps, which discussed styling, headers and footers, and pagination.
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