Self-Publishing Author Offers Free Tips On How-to Embed A Linked Table of Contents in eBooks

Aug. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- “All Smart Cookies Can Self-Publish’ September Update is now available on Amazon.com." exclaims self-publisher, Emily Hill who, this morning, released her latest edition on self-publishing. "It very exciting to have my September Update out!”

Visit http://www.amazon.com/Self-Publish-September-Independent-Publishing-ebook/dp/B004GXAYO4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1314462077&sr=1-1 for details.  

“Priced at just $3.95 it is the most up-to-date, comprehensive how to self-publish guide available.  A lot of authors pen self-publish guides and then split.  I am the only publisher who updates her guides four times a year!”  Ms. Hill claims proudly.  

To celebrate publishing the September Update of ‘All Smart Cookies Can Self-Publish’ Ms. Hill is offering the following excerpt from her book that outlines the steps for inserting a live-link Table of Contents into eBooks.  Writers who are new to self-publishing, take note:

Formatting A ‘Linked’ Table of Contents:  Don’t you find it easier if there are links in a document that take you directly to a referred URL or directly to a chapter start from the Table of Contents?  It’s not that hard to do!  To format a linked Table of Contents for your eReader documents follow these instructions:

Go through your document, and at each Chapter start or Indexed item, highlight the first word (one distinctive word) that represents that Chapter. Do a ‘copy’ function on that word.

This word should not be ‘Chapter’.

This can ONLY be ONE word for the ‘bookmark’ function to work.

Go to your Insert function and click on Bookmark;

A navigation Window will open;

Make sure your sort selector is on ‘Location’;

Do a ‘paste’ of the one word that will click to the chapter; then ‘copy’ that one word, placing it in the ‘Bookmark Name’ box;

click ‘Add’.

Repeat the process until you have a roster of One-Words that designate each Chapter.
Type the words ‘Table of Contents’ at the appropriate location in your eBook and place your cursor under that location.

Note:  You’ll notice that in the ‘Bookmark’ function your entries are in order as they should appear in your book; however in the ‘Hyperlink’ function your entries are in alpha order.  

Note:  I recommend that you have a print-out of the sequence you want your Chapters and ‘Hyperlinks’ to follow so that they match the correct order of the ‘Bookmarks’ you’ve just set up.  

Go to your menu bar to your Insert options, and click on Hyperlink.  In the dialogue box click on the left side “Place in this document” – you will be placing your hyperlinks in the same document you are working in, of course.

Locate the ‘set’ of Bookmark One-Words that represent your Table of Contents, again, the set of words will be in ‘alpha’ order; whereas your bookmark list will be in ‘location’ order.

Locate the one-word that represents your first chapter
Click on that One Word
Click on ‘OK’
Click ‘insert’
Click ‘enter’

Repeat the process until you have underlined, blue-links lined up under your Table of Contents.

Test your links!  There!  You’re done – A  linked Table of Contents!

Ms. Hill has also just released her latest new title, ‘Making Money on eBooks:  Smart Promoting’ to her ‘All Smart Cookies Can Self-Publish’ line up.  

Visit http://www.amazon.com/Making-Money-eBooks-Promoting-ebook... for details.  

“You can find me by visiting my A.V. Harrison Publishing website.”  Visit http://www.avharrison-publishing.com/publishing-and-coachin for details.

“By following me as a writer, or following me as an IndiePub Coach,  I think you’ll have something to gain – like a supportive friendship!” the author, and publisher, invites.

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A.V. Harrison Publishing features ground-breaking topics from emerging authors. Its books are distributed by Ingram, available on Amazon.com and B&N Nook. Owner, Emily Hill, invites submissions and can be contacted at info@avharrison-publishing.com.