DIY Book Formats FREE Book Formatting Templates (InDesign and MS Word: for Createspace, POD, Kindle and more). ![]() ![]() Aug 19, 2008 I am making a chapbook/zine that needs to be completed by noon on Thursday. I need help on how to format Microsoft Word so I. Try Microsoft Edge A fast and secure browser that's designed for Windows 10 No thanks Get started. Office templates & themes. Templates by app. Find, create, or change a template in Publisher. The default template location is C: Users username AppData Roaming Microsoft Templates. ![]() For the last two years, since the launch of, we’ve been getting requests for specialty book templates. And I can see why. We originally launched with only 6 pre-designed book templates for Microsoft Word. They were best suited to novels, short fiction, literary essays, memoirs, and other texts with few formatting needs. Eventually our selection grew to include more complex templates for authors with nonfiction books, where the formatting needs can be much heavier. In nonfiction we commonly deal with formats like • Levels of subheads • Lists of various kinds • Extra-textural elements like pull quotes and sidebars • Graphs, tables, and illustrations Then last year we added a whole range of age-specific children’s book templates. For thousands of authors, these pre-designed templates for Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign have helped them create good looking, industry standard books in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost it would have taken before. That’s very satisfying. Today we’re answering one of the most persistent requests we’ve had right from the start: Could we provide the same kind of help for authors of poetry books? The Problem of Poetry Formatting More than any other literary form, poetic works require almost line-by-line formatting. Poets, in order to best express their art, often create entirely new ways to display poetry on a book page. And there are many poetic forms themselves that include in their structure formatting requirements, like Shakespeare’s sonnets with their ending 2-line couplets. We wanted to create a template that would have enough pre-formatted styles to handle a wide variety of verse. To accomplish this, I broke down the formats needed into the following types, shown here with samples from the InDesign version of our new template: • Blank verse • Lighter blank verse • Staggered verse • Verse with short lines • Staggered short lines • “Call and response” Because of the many ways poetry books are formatted, we also created styles for credits that can be used at the end of poems or in conjunction with the poem’s title.
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