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A paperback, a hardcover and a large-print edition are the same book in different clothes: a different trim size, perhaps a different font size, wider margins. You don't need a copy of the book for each. You keep one manuscript and a page setup for each editio...

Everything about how your book looks on the page—its size, margins, fonts, how chapters open—lives in one place: the page setup. This page shows you around it. The pages after this one go through each part in turn. Open it Open a book and choose Page setup fro...

The trim size is how big your printed book is; the margins are the white space around the words. This page helps you pick both. You'll find them on the Layout tab of Page setup (in the Book menu). Screenshot: the Trim size and Margins cards on the Layout tab,...

How big the type is and how far apart the lines are decide, more than anything else, how comfortable your book is to read—and how many pages it runs to. This page covers those, and the few switches that shape a paragraph. They're on the Layout tab of Page setu...

Fonts give a book its voice before anyone reads a word. This page explains how Write thinks about them—three main faces, with everything else following one of them—and how to change them. It's all on the Fonts tab of Page setup (in the Book menu). The quickest...

Write comes with a good range of fonts, but if you've bought a font for your series—or your cover designer used one you'd like inside the book too—you can upload it and use it like any other. This page covers uploading, and the one thing worth knowing about li...

The first page of a chapter is where a book shows a little ceremony: the chapter starts partway down the page, the title sits just so, and the first paragraph often opens with a large capital letter and a few words in small capitals. This page covers those tou...

Along the top of a printed book's pages runs a header—usually the author's name on the left-hand page and the title on the right—and at the foot, the page number. This page covers how they look and where the numbering starts. It's all in the Headers and footer...