Need Some Help With My New Ebook Please!!

by rcoop
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Hey Everyone:

I am putting the finishing touches on my new Ebook that I will be selling on ClicBank but am totally lost on how to put in the clickable navigation to chapters so the reader does not have to scroll all the way through if they do not want to... Anyone know how to do this? I know how to make bookmarks on the sidebar but not sure how to have the links actually in the text.
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  • Profile picture of the author timvaquera
    i think you will need adobe acrobat pro to do that
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by timvaquera View Post

      i think you will need adobe acrobat pro to do that
      Not so...

      There are two things that go into making a clickable TOC.

      First, the word processor or other composition program you use must be capable of creating clickable links.

      Second, the program you use to convert from the original document to PDF must preserve those links.

      Open Office Writer (free) offers both functions.
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    • Profile picture of the author Curtis McKinnon
      I think what your talking about is a in-document hyperlink; You can do that on both open office and Microsoft office (don't ask me how to do it in Microsoft).

      I would imagine their both similar in method and theory.

      in open office you want to highlight the text then go to the hyperlink icon on your taskbar; or you can do it the old way by highlighting the text then clicking insert -> Hyperlink

      In the hyperlink window you want to click the document icon on your left hand side, then in the area where your supposed to provide a path for in document link click where the browse button would be normally.

      (In order for this to work all you chapter titles have to be classified as headers) under the window that pops up called "Target In Document" click the headings section and find the chapter title that corresponds to the high lighted text; after that just follow your common sense.

      TO MAKE HEADERS:

      To make your chapter titles Headers highlight them then click the drop down menu beside the text font menu this menu usually says something like "default" or "paragraph" click it and choose a header / heading option; this changes your chapter title to a header.
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      • Profile picture of the author colinph970
        It is actually easier than you might think......well in MS Word at least:

        highlight the title of each section you want to appear in your table of contents and format them as headers (header 1 or header 2 or header 3 etc)

        Then

        .......click "insert", then "reference" then "index and tables" and then select "table of contents"

        the table of contents will be added automatically together with page numbers.

        Anytime you add new content and you want to update the table of contents then select the current table and press F9. Select the option to update the whole table and the whole table is updated!
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  • Profile picture of the author inhwanie
    You can do it in MS word and other document editors as people above have mentioned but you can also do it in adobe acrobat. You DO NOT need the professional version for this. But make sure you get the full standard version of Acrobat NOT Reader

    Then go to tools-> Advanced Editing-> Link tool.
    Draw a rectangle around the text to link and it will prompt you for link options like the in-document link among other things
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  • Profile picture of the author ezinerebel
    Originally Posted by rcoop View Post

    Hey Everyone:

    I am putting the finishing touches on my new Ebook that I will be selling on ClicBank but am totally lost on how to put in the clickable navigation to chapters so the reader does not have to scroll all the way through if they do not want to... Anyone know how to do this? I know how to make bookmarks on the sidebar but not sure how to have the links actually in the text.
    Hi rcoop -

    I have no idea what word processor you are using but here is a video showing how it's done in Word 2003:

    If you use another version or other processor, just search... hope that helps!
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