eBook Creation Using Adobe Indesign, No HTML Code Needed

Aaron describes this section and what to expect when you first start with Indesign.

Learn the mouse click standards, graphics, sounds, and meaning used in this Adobe Indesign course.

Learn about the different units of measurement, increments, leading, grids, and everything else that needs to be configured so you can work on your manuscript to ebook conversion.

Creating a document project. Learn to set book dimensions and other important items for a book layout.

Configuring the different panels in Indesign can be a confusing task. This lesson helps you understand what panels are and how best to set them up.

Once you set up Adobe Indesign to your liking, you'll want to save the panel layout for future use.

How to fix and remove paragraph styles in MS Word to prevent migration into Adobe Indesign.

You will be able to find and remove special characters that cause layout problems in Adobe Indesign

Tabs added into a MS Word document can cause many problems during ebook layout. Learn how to find, fix, and substitute tabs with a better option.

Find, identify, and fix double and triple spaces in your manuscript. Learn why spaces before and after paragraphs can cause problems and how to eliminate them.

Find out why it's important to stick to using one font in your MS Word manuscript. This will help prevent problems once you begin your ebook layout in Adobe Indesign.

Fix paragraph formatting issues and eliminate the overuse of paragraph styles in MS Word. This will substantially reduce the amount of work to fix the manuscript in Adobe Indesign.

Learn why it's important to clear track changes and notes in your MS Word document before importing it into Adobe Indesign.

Learn how to do a final spelling and grammar check before importing the manuscript into Adobe Indesign to prevent embarrassing errors down the line.

Changing, eliminating, and fixing paragraph styles to prevent problems during the layout process.

Removing special characters to reduce problems in Adobe Indesign.

Finding, fixing, and removing tabs from a Google Docs manuscript to reduce the problems in Indesign.

Fixing and finding extra spaces in your Google Docs manuscript to reduce problems during layout.

Understanding why it's important to use a single font in your fiction book manuscript when you plan to convert it to an ebook in Adobe Indesign.

How to find and fix spelling and grammar errors in Google Docs to save time and costly mistakes down the line.

How to export a document from Google Docs for use in Adobe Indesign for a fiction ebook layout.

You will see how to place a manuscript file into Adobe Indesign and some of the different options to choose when you do this.

An open-source Charles Dickens novel is included in this lesson. It will have some of the challenges that you will have dealing with external files to work on as an exercise.

Learn the method of using the Place command to insert a manuscript into your Adobe Indesign ebook layout.

Learn another method for placing a manuscript and text into Adobe Indesign from just about any text source on your computer.

Linked documents are powerful tools to keep your Adobe Indesign ebook layout up to date. However, it has some drawbacks covered in this lesson.

Learn the process of moving titles and text between pages and locations in your fiction ebook layout.

You will better understand text threads and why they are so important to fiction ebook layout.

You will learn the shortcuts to parse chapters in your fiction ebook layout which will be important later.

Learn how to create chapter titles with paragraph styles. This is very important for the table of contents generation and breaking apart the ebook correctly.

Learn how to add additional paragraph styles for a look and also for ebook conversion as well as table of contents generation.

Forced line breaks can cause paragraph alignment problems in your ebook. Learn how to take care of them properly.

You will be able to identify the parts of a print book and where the material should be placed. This will make the structure of an ebook easier to understand.

Identify what the ebook table of contents looks like and how it works in an ebook.

Understand what the structure of the front matter is like in a fiction ebook.

You will see what a fiction ebook ends up looking like as the final result.

Understand what the structure of the end matter is like in a fiction ebook. I touch on an important secret to your success as an author or an ebook designer with how to use the end matter to your advantage.

Understand the connection between fonts in Adobe Indesign and your final ebook file and how it's displayed and used.

Learn to use the effective find and replace tool to save time when fixing errors in the ebook layout process.

Finding and fixing various hyphenation issues that come up from importing manuscripts into Adobe Indesign.

Identify and issues and paragraph styles that need to be added to make the ebook export work correctly.

This is a critical lesson. This information wraps up the entire class that makes the ebook generation from Adobe Indesign function correctly.

How to add the table of contents to the ebook generation to make it function properly.