Book-manuscript must conform to a standard page
In order to be able to submit a book manuscript to a publisher, you need to make the individual pages as standard pages. The term comes from the time to made the pages for the printing with the typewriter had been.
- In the case of a standard page, a row corresponds to exactly 60 characters, and a page of 30 lines, so that an entire page of 1,800 characters. The is defined in such a way, even if the Text may vary in truth from this number, for example, by slots or unfinished lines. Spaces are included here, by the way.
- An exception is the "VG wort, however, is". A standard page corresponds to only 1.500 characters. Make sure beforehand whether, and if so, what makes for information from the publisher.
So you set your book manuscript with Word
Is determined by the publisher and nothing else, you should have your book manuscript as a standard page submit with 1,800 characters per page. We will show you what settings you can do this in Word 2007, you need to make. Under other versions of Word, the settings may differ slightly.
- Set up your page. To do this, click on the "page layout" and then "page setup". You first go to the tab "Layout". At the bottom, click "line numbers". Then put a checkmark in front of "line numbers add" and make sure that "Every page is a new click starting" will be displayed. Then press "OK" and switch to the tab "margins". Enter the following Numbers: 3.75 cm (Top), 3.9 cm (Bottom), 2 cm (left) and 3.7 cm (Right). Compare this to the Screenshot.
- Set the paragraph. Click again on "page layout" and then "paragraph". Select the item "enter" a Special collection, using the dimension set "To" 0.7 cm. Then go to "line spacing" and select "1.5 lines". Then click on the top of the tab "line and page breaks" and uncheck the item "sales control". Confirm your entries with "Ok".
- Set the font. To do this, click "Start" and search for the Font name "Courier New", then set the font size to "12". Depending on the publisher's request, you must select the Arial Font.
- Insert information. Next, you should set the page numbers. To do this, click on the menu item "Insert" and then in the "header and footer" on the "page number". Select a suitable Format by clicking. Then select the header by double-clicking. You also need to specify the correct Font and size and enter your name and book title. Then jump with a double click in the footer and enter your contact information. This includes your full Name, postal address, telephone and mobile number and Email address.
Book manuscript: to Set the standard page as a Word template
You don't want to create every Time again a standard page, you can save this as a template and, on request, at any time, then under a different name. We will show you how it works.
- Press the menu Button in the Microsoft Word and select "Save as". Then click on "Word template", so as you can see in the Screenshot.
- You can assign an individual name, such as, for example, "book manuscript template" and save it in the desired directory.
- You want to call the file, start Microsoft Word, click in the menu on "New" and then select on the left side of the "New from existing". Then select your template.
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