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How To Rid a Book Template of Chapters; No-Fool’in Book Giveaway

I wish this were only an April Fool’s joke: the print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead” is not ready. Earlier in the week I started transferring the story to the manuscript template but then found out that there were some technical problems. The template was made for a book divided into chapters. I don’t use chapters in “Circa” since it’s a short work. But problems like these can easily be fixed. I simply placed the cursor of my mouse on the first tab of a chapter’s opening page. Then I back-spaced until I got rid of the chapter heading as well as the page break. The page breaks are often used so the next chapter won’t begin on the same page as the end of the previous one. I did this for the first page of each chapter.

Now I have to see if there are any other technical challenges in the template but I won’t be able to tell until I start pasting my story’s text to the template. Unless you’re an expert at book design, which I’m not, formatting your own book is really all about trial and error among other tasks in self-publishing.

Since I work with Libre Writer for typing my manuscript does this mean the above method only works for that? Actually, it will especially work for Microsoft Word. Word’s help website is where I learned how to do it. I had tried Libre’s online help centre but when I did a search for how to delete pages only results for deleting other things came up. It shows you how compatible Writer is with Word but how bad Libre’s help site is. But I can’t complain too much since Libre offers its software for free. The method for deleting pages may differ slightly with other word processing software.

I’m going to work on the print edition of “Circa” throughout the week. And since I may not be doing a post next weekend because one of my in-laws is tying the knot, I’ll let you know on my Facebook page when the print edition is out. Or maybe even when it’s not out. So visit my FB page throughout the week for updates on that as well as for other neat stuff.


Jester holding a scepter topped with a skull wearing a jester cap.
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Since the print version of “Circa” has seemed like nothing but a joke ever since I said several months back, around Christmas, that it would be comingsooner than expected, I’ll make up for it with a no-fool’in April Fool’s offer. From midnight tonight through tomorrow, Pacific standard time, you can get a free e-copy of my short fiction collection, The Fool’sIllusion

Have you tried using Word templates to format your book? What has been your experience with them?


Until next time . . .  

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