Preliminaries and notes
Module 1: Introductions, interface, and setup
Module 1 extras
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Module 1: extra content
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MacinCloud overview for PC users or older Macs (4:50)
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MacinCloud: signing up (5:30)
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MacinCloud: logging out, logging in, accessing your server (4:22)
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MacinCloud web dashboard (2:59)
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Connecting Dropbox or OneDrive
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Changing icon size in MacinCloud (1:31)
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Canceling MacinCloud (0:35)
Module 2: Project files and data setup
Module 2 extras
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Module 2: extra content
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Too many/too few chapters? How to merge or split (5:17)
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Duplicating files: how-to, plus some use cases for same vs different files (4:25)
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DOCX files from LibreOffice (2:09)
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Finding lost files - three things to try (2:32)
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Vellum's file versioning ("revert to"): restoring an older file (3:03)
Module 3: Mastering the elements (chapters, title page, front/back matter...)
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Elements overview (1:42)
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Adding elements - different types, single or multiple (3:14)
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Removing elements - single or multiple (2:45)
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Changing types of elements (recategorizing), or renaming (2:16)
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Title box gear menu: add subtitle or chapter author, chapter numbering, heading images (5:19)
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Contents: overview, KDP requirements, ebook vs print (4:38)
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Contents: groupings and adjusting vertical spacing (3:32)
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Contents: customizations with subtitles, subheadings, chapter authors (1:44)
Module 3 extras
Module 4: All about "Styles" and customizing your Vellum template
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Styles overview (4:50)
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Choose your book style/template & customize: Chapter Heading & First Paragraph (4:59)
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Paragraph After Break settings, looking for sneaky text breaks, and Vellum's Find menu (5:45)
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Headers & Footers—default and customized (7:09)
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Body settings, part 1: All formats—indents vs spacing, justification, hyphenation (3:34)
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Body settings, part 2: Print only—choosing & resizing fonts, clarified breaks (6:55)
Module 4/5: Crossovers — Styles & Text Features
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Overview: items found both in styles & text features
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Ornamental breaks: default options & customizing (best practices) (3:41)
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Images, part 1: 5 format options/styles, ALT text, and linking images (5:18)
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Images, part 2: Edition-specific images, replacing an image, adding a caption (5:49)
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Block Quotation & Verse options (4:08)
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Text Conversation formatting (5:01)
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Written Note formatting (2:26)
Module 5: Text Features - fine-tuning your book text
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Text Features: overview (2:33)
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Subheadings: Setting up in Word or in Vellum (3:11)
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Subheadings: workarounds for multiple heading levels (3:04)
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Alignment blocks: basics and edition-specific uses (3:59)
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Lists: Bulleted/numbered, single or multiple levels (2:12)
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Web Links: From ebook to internet link (2:11)
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Store links, from an ebook to book retailers (4:30)
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Internal links: connecting to other locations in an ebook (3:03)
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Footnotes & Endnotes (5:43)
Module 6: Fine-tuning print and ebook formats, customizations, etc.
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Overview: Print book basics, plus simple and more complex customizations
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_NEW_ Print Settings pt. 1: Trim sizes, margins, and text size + line spacing (2:35)
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What is bleed? KDP and Vellum settings (2:58)
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Title page - custom, option 1: Half Title and Title Page inserted in a Blurbs element (8:42)
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Title page - custom, option 2: full page image (5:56)
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Chapter Background custom settings (print only) (4:30)
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NEW | Multiple chapter backgrounds, single & double backgrounds (3:43)
