How do I do this?

Actually, it WON'T! Will it open in a browser? SURE! Almost ANY document will! Open up an RTF file, and it may look like word if you have it setup right. Is it HTML, or formatted as html? CERTAINLY NOT!!!!!!!

heysal,

Worse comes to worse, you can download open office for free, and save as html with IT! It's not perfect, but looks reasonably close and clean, and you can use Kompozer or some such to clean it up.

Steve

Dang, I made you a screen capture for nothing.

Download Kindle Previewer if you haven't already. It's great. Also get Kindle for your PC. Once I've got my book done with the previewer. I copy and paste it into the "My Kindle Content" folder and that makes it available for your PC Kindle. I find this the easiest way to work. I'm going through all mine right now making fine adjustments.

All you do is create your book in Word, save as Web Page. Then open the previewer, Click "File," and Open Book. Point it to the saved Web page ed. and it will render it inside of 20 seconds. Then pop that pup into your Kindle Content folder and it will immediately be available to view on your PC Kindle.

I don't know what type of file Mobi takes. If it's the same as a Kindle file you should be okay, but I don't know. None of my books have TOCs so I can't help you there either. As for the cover, you upload it separately so don't sweat that. It's a completely different file.

But here's a tip. People will argue about it but this is straight from Amazon. The long side of your cover should be a minimum of 2500 px. That's a big honkin file. But do it anyway because it really improves resolution when Amazon shrinks it down to the size of a postage stamp.

I just made a TOC using Word for the first time, and it's not too bad. A few steps involved but it's more tedious than confusing. You don't have to worry about page numbers because that will change depending on the text size on the particular Kindle. So you would take the page numbers off anyway. But it's an easy way to make a TOC without manually typing in all the chapter headings yourself. If you don't have many, though, it's probably not a big deal.

If you decide you do want a TOC, let me know and I can help you out.

I agree the technical stuff isn't fun. But once you get set up it's not bad. You might check out Diana Heuser (sp?). She does this along with proofreading (a la carte). It might be worth it as her prices are really reasonable. The only reason I'm doing mine is I want to know how it's done for future reference.

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WOW! You DON'T need a roomie like THAT! Frankly, that is another reason to LEAVE! BTW the FTC said yesterday that Rent to own computer places can spy on their customers even down to keyloggers!

FTC Halts Computer Spying

An article says they aren't fining, and that they are OK with it if there is permission.

Anyway, you can, for windows, try going into the control panel(start control(on all windows versions, as I recall.)), and then go to user accounts, You should also look at the display settings, and the screen saver. There is also often a hidden guest account. You'll find it in users. Disable it, or password protect it.

Of course, doing this means YOU will have to log in now. And he may STILL try to do something.

I DON'T claim to be a windows expert. I know the backend ways to protect linux, but the GUI can be different.

Steve

In Word, click "Save As" and then select Web Page. That's it.

Yeah, I DID say it is pretty clean. As I recall, last time I used Word, it WAS MESSY! Frontpage was a joke.

Steve

I wish I'd known that before I edited. I had it on OO and one of the pdf's I read about it said it needed to be on MS - so I transfered it to MS and finished the editing. If I'd known I could use OO, I would have -- but then I think I would have had to use another step again.

I'm freaking confused - but it's getting done. Right now I'm dealing with thinking again about putting chapter headings. I'm reading the formatting pdf from Amazon themselves - and they are the ones who say to use the "Home" button to set the chapter headings. I'm still trying to find a toolbar with "home" on it. WTF? Guess I'll be talking to Laura pretty soon.

BTW - computer is spyware free again - and password protected. Roomie is pissed but can't say anything or I'd know he tried to get on here again. LMAO.

Damned - I can't believe how much harder it is to format and publish a book than it is to write one.

I DID say WAS!

Steve

It is ironic, but when I first started seeing the trend towards windows, I asked people WHY! Years later, I asked the same question. Their answer? EASIER!

Well, M/S has ACKNOWLEDGED that THAT is why they do it, and why they like icons!

The newest versions of word VIOLATE EVERY standard they built windows on! SURE, they are gui, and use the interface, but WHERE are the drop down menus? NOWHERE!!!!!!!! OK, they STILL have the files menu, HIDDEN behind that stupid logo, but NOTHING else! NOW, they have apparently gotten rid of some, and others are isolated on tabs by THEIR idea of category. So old users have to relearn the interface! Open Office still has the same old interface, so you DON'T have to relearn! They did this with things as simple as the ODBC and task managers as well.

As many of you may know, my mother developed alzheimers. Well, this made the changing of icons especially difficult so even a change like THAT was bad. She would look for the printer icon she knew, and totally miss the current one. She would have to relearn even things ingrained as habit.

HECK, when they started putting icons on printers, I felt, and still feel, that is IDIOTIC! They may replace a word like power or even ON with some icon that is SO small and poorly done that nobody could make sense of it. They may even make ANOTHER button red, and hide the power button or something. of course, that is just ONE example. Wasn't it bad enough when they replaced the OBVIOUS PARALLEL printer connection with a connector that had been, for DECADES used only for serial?

OH WELL, heysal, I ran into your SAME problem! This SHOULD work for M/S WORD 2007-2012.....


1. Click the tab that says references.
2. Click the table of contents icon on your far left.

Steve

You can do it with Word 2000. Try this. Make a headline and then bold it and change the font size to 14 or 16 pt. Word might recognize it as a header.