How to create your own eBook in Microsoft Word

STEP 1. Create the cover

Let’s start with perhaps the most “important” part. We all judge books by the cover, and eBooks are not a case apart. Also, there are so many creative possibilities when it comes to something digital that it can be even easier to create something interesting and creative.

Well, to create a cover it is as simple as following these three steps:

• Go to the Insert menu
• Click the Cover button available on the left side
• Select the cover page that is suitable for your eBook
  

  STEP 2. Add copyright

  This is a relevant step since we will have to protect our content from being disclosed by the network. To do this we will include a copyright page. To get started, just follow these steps

  • Go to the Insert menu
  • Click Symbols on the right side
  • Look for the copyright symbol and enter it on the page
    

    STEP 3. Insert an active table of contents

    The table of contents helps your readers quickly scan the topics that the eBook covers. It is a small illustrative indication of the interior of the eBook. Microsoft Word offers two different types of tables.

    Auto Table: Displays all titles, one through three, in order. Since they are automatic, you can enter as many headlines (up to H3 level) as you want and simply update the table, the context will be filled automatically.

    Manual table: If you have more than three levels of subheadings in your eBook, eg H4, H5, H6, etc., you can opt for the manual table. As the name suggests, you can manually enter the details into it.

    To insert a table of contents into your eBook:

    • Go to the References menu
    • Click the Table of Contents button on the left side
    • Choose Automatic Table or Manual from the dropdown menu

    To update the automatic table of contents, you just have to go to References and click on the “Update table” button, available next to the Table of Contents button.

    STEP 4. Add the header and footer

    Headers are text located at the top of pages that are entered once and repeated on all pages of a document, such as the name of the book itself, for example .

    • Go to the Insert menu
    • Click on the Header option
    • Choose the header that you like the most from the multiple options available

    Similarly, you can use the footer to display any information that is suitable for your eBook. Footnotes offer additional information that is of interest to the reader, but that cannot be included within the text, such as some dimension, for example.