Formatting eBooks with Open Office Writer

By Dr. Kerry R. Bunn

This guide is designed for formatting eBooks using Open Office Writer version 3.0 and greater. The basic principles in this guide should work equally well with any word processor. These step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and help authors correctly format their documents in eBook format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Kerry R. Bunn
• Release date: Aug 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452472065

Dr. Kerry R. Bunn

Dr. Bunn is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Ringgold, GA. He was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in February, 1975. He and Cathy Lee Prince Bunn have been married for over thirty-five years. They have two adult children and seven grandchildren.Dr. Bunn earned degrees from Mercer University, Macon, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Doctor of Ministry degree from Beeson School of Divinity, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.Dr. Bunn's first experience with computers involved the Timex Sinclair 1000, the Vic-20, Osborne, TRS-80, CPM 2.0, DOS 1.0, and Xenix. He began building PCs as a hobby in 1985 and has written many shareware programs and several commercial application in the 80's and early 90's. He was a beta-tester for the original Logitech hand-held scanner and SuperBase Four. Simple, clear, step by step computer instructions are his emphasis. He has graduate worked toward the Master of Business Administration and Master of Information Systems degrees at Georgia College and State University

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Formatting eBooks

with

Open Office Writer

Dr. Kerry R. Bunn

Published by Kerry R. Bunn at Amazon DTP

Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Kerry R. Bunn, Sr.

Ringgold, GA 30736 -- All Rights Reserved

Smashwords Edition 1.0 * September 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4524-7206-5

v1.1 -- October 1, 2010 -- 6:00 AM

Paperback Available

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Contents

1. Getting Started

2. eBooks and Paperback

3. Important eTerms

4. A Word about eReaders

5. Working with Page Styles

5.1 Creating a Clean eDocument

5.2 Creating a Page Style

5.3 Setting Up Page Formatting

6. Working for Screen Readability

7. Working with Paragraphs

7.1 Creating Paragraph Styles

7.2 Setting a Master Document Font

7.3 My Basic Paragraph Styles

7.4 eBook Paragraph--Default Style

7.5 eBook Paragraph--Indent Justify Style

7.6 Creating Other Paragraph & Heading Styles

7.7 Setting the Hyperlink Font Color

8. Saving an eDocument Template

8.1 Download eDocument Templates

8.2 Paperback Template Notes

9. Modifying an Existing Style

10. Adding Blank Lines and Spacing

11. Setting Up the Next Style

12. Typing, Formatting, and Styles

13. Applying Formatting and Styles

14. Adding Page Breaks

14.1 Automatic Page Breaks

15. Checking for Hidden Text

16. Creating a Table of Contents

16.1 Using Chapter Headings

16.2 Using Bookmarks and Hyperlinks

17. Converting Existing Documents

18. Embedding Graphic Images

18.1 How I Embedded Graphics

19. Adding Metadata

20. Saving Your Work

21. Testing Your Work

22. Connect with Me Online

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1. Getting Started

My guess is you have struggled like I have in correctly formatting your eBook for publication. I was frustrated and tired of experimenting to see what worked and what did not work. I finally decided to develop a guide to simplify creating and formatting eBooks.

This guide is designed for formatting eBooks using Open Office Writer version 3.0 and greater. The basic principles in this guide