Not blaming you, it's just me. This is typical for when I look up how to do things. I love the way I can follow along click for click and find that my table of contents has a whole bunch of other entries in it. Oh, those must have a Heading 1 style, I thought. Nope, default style. So I just delete them from my table of content only to have them jump back in again as soon as I update the table. Also, why is there a grey background on the table when "No fill" is selected? F!#$K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Hi there, did you manage to get your issues solved, ProfessorOzone? The only one I think I can help with is the grey background on the table of contents. For some reason, it will be highlighted grey in OpenOffice, but it's just bluffing. When you save as PDF, it will look like a normal white page as it will when it's uploaded to Amazon, too. The weird grey thing just seems to be a feature of the Open Office table of contents. As to "default" showing up in your table of contents, I have never run into that, so I don't know how to troubleshoot. A program just does its own thing sometimes, I find, for no rhyme or reason. You probably have already, but if you haven't, maybe right click on your table of contents and choose "edit table" from the drop down. Then check "entries" and make sure that only level 1 is chosen. Regardless, "default" shouldn't be showing up in the table, so it's probably just glitching. Whatever extra is showing up, I'd maybe try highlighting it, changing it to heading 1 and then back again to default to see if that makes it "forget." Hopefully, you find a solution. Good luck with your project. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@self-publishinghelp8596 At first NOTHING was working. But . . . I was using my own custom heading and it didn't like that. So instead I just changed Heading 1 style to look like my custom heading and then it worked with the mentioned problems. What I did was find those extra entries in the body of the document and highlighted them and selected default style. I had pasted that stuff in from a website and apparently only part of it was default. Strangely NONE of it was Heading 1 so I don't know why it showed up in the TOC in the first place. This worked for one of the entries, but not the other. So I wound up highlighting well before the offending text and selected default and voila! It worked. The grey background still bothers me since this document is never intended to be printed. Guess it's a first world problem. Anyway, the grey background is nowhere near as bad as the underline it put under each entry when I made them links. It left the little dots joining the chapters to the page numbers so now I have a redundant line under them as well. I'm sure I could get rid of that by changing the style of links, but I'd rather keep that style for the rest of the document. At least I can now click on the appropriate section in the TOC and jump to where I want to be. It's a living document and will be quite large when I'm done. Thanks for the video!
Hi! Im still here. Are you doing okay? I have a Q: is there a way to mark my chapters and then get something like tabs (to the left of the document) which are clickable so I can go between chapters quickly. A lot of times I think of something to quickly change in a previous chapter and this would spare me so much time. Btw if my book, its 60% done now, makes it big I come bring you a cheque for helping me to your doorstep
Hmmm, I can’t think of any feature of Open Office like you’re describing. One possible way to get to the chapter you want in a couple of steps would be to create an interactive table of contents (See my playlist on creating an ebook.) With that interactive table of contents, you could zip back to the beginning of your book and then, to get to the chapter of your choice, click on the hyperlink for that chapter in the table of contents. I think it’s control + right click (or something like that. The right command combination pops up if you move the mouse over the hyperlink.) I can’t think of another easy way to switch between chapters, sorry. I just do a lot of scrolling. Maybe a slightly quicker way is the “find and replace” tool under “edit.” Then you could type in “Chapter 8” (for example), and it will take you there. (In theory). I dunno. If you discover a way to tab between chapters, let me know. I’d be interested to learn that.
Good question! With a complicated answer. I had to play around to get it to work as requested. Hope my instructions make sense. You may have to do some playing around to make it work how you want, as well. I clicked on the blank page before my chapter opener that I wanted to be numbered page one. From that blank page, I clicked on Format->Paragraph->Text Flow. Under Text Flow->Breaks, I made sure "Insert" was checked with Type: Page and Position: Before. Then, I checked the box for "With Page Style." From the drop down bar beside it, I scrolled up to "Chapter Opener" (what I have my chapter opener format page labelled) and chose it. Then I changed the page number drop down bar beside it to "1." I hit okay. This changed that blank page to the chapter opener format and numbered it as "1". All the consecutive pages were numbered accordingly. To get the actual chapter opener page numbered as "1", I simply clicked on the top of the Chapter 1 page. Then I hit backspace. "1" was now on the correct chapter opening page, but I was missing the blank page I wanted to come before it. This was an easy fix. I went to the last page before where I wanted the blank page inserted (the acknowledgement page in my book). Its formatting did not include a page number or footer. I hit "control" and "enter" at the same time to create a new page with the same formatting, and everything was how I wanted it. Hope this helps and you can follow along without getting too lost. Thanks for watching and commenting.
