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How to make an ebook with clickable sidebar chapter titles?

by BillyBee
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Can someone tell me how people make those ebooks with the handy side menu of clickable chapter titles?

I'm creating a long ebook and I know that will be helpful to readers. Thanks!
#chapter #clickable #ebook #make #sidebar #titles
  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    If you are creating an exe book, you can create the sidebar using frames in HTML just as you would on a website then compile.

    If you want to use PDF, I seem to recall it's a standard feature of Adobe Acrobat.

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    • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
      In Word, you just assign the 'heading' style to the chapter title and it creates the navigational links from them.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
        Originally Posted by sanssecret View Post

        In Word, you just assign the 'heading' style to the chapter title and it creates the navigational links from them.
        It won't be on the sidebar but it will make the links in Table of Contents clickable.

        I doubt there is a way to do that in word without making your ebook look unprofessional. I can be wrong though
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        • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
          Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq View Post

          It won't be on the sidebar but it will make the links in Table of Contents clickable.

          I doubt there is a way to do that in word without making your ebook look unprofessional. I can be wrong though
          Mo, at the moment I'm using Word 2010 and it does put them in the sidebar, and they are clickable. Not sure about previous versions of Word though.

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          • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
            You gotta show me how to do that as i too am using word 2010 and i don't have a slightest idea of how this works
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          • Profile picture of the author sal64
            Yes, but what happens when you convert to PDF? Do you automatically get the side bar of the pages? In know it's not the same, but it would suffice.

            I would advise the OP from creating a .exe file, given that PDF is the standard these days.
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            • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
              Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq View Post

              You gotta show me how to do that as i too am using word 2010 and i don't have a slightest idea of how this works
              Originally Posted by sal64 View Post

              Yes, but what happens when you convert to PDF? Do you automatically get the side bar of the pages? In know it's not the same, but it would suffice.

              I would advise the OP from creating a .exe file, given that PDF is the standard these days.
              Ok, now I'm worried that maybe I'm thinking of something different to you guys. :confused: Seriously, this just happens automatically for me.

              Ok, just recorded a quick video. Take a look and see if we are talking about the same thing.

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              • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
                Sanssecret, thanks for making that video!! Totally cleared it up for me, thanks.
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                • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
                  Glad to have been of help. I'm just pleased to know we were talking about the same thing, lol.
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