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Now let’s get on with formatting the first Free Book – Tobermory and preparing it for print
Recommended Resources: – on Free Resources Page:
Abiword
EditPad Lite
Textfixer
So you downloaded your text and selected the story called Tobermory and copied and pasted into your word processor or text editor. And all is fine.
Well, there’s nothing exactly wrong but probably your text is formatted with short lines all ending with a carriage return which you might be able to see. Like this:
This, of course is necessary if you want to preserve the lines of text like a poem or a list.
But for a Story like Tobermory I’d rather go a step further and get rid of those carriage returns and have the text properly arranged in in paragraphs.
Now this blog is called freebooksplus so I’m going to recommend free tools. I’ll say right now that if you want to reformat the text on your computer, the easiest way is to use Microsoft Word which will easily replace the carriage returns.
Unfortunately the free word processors have no easy way of doing this.
Still, let’s do it all online:
Select the whole text you want to reformat (control+a) and then cut it (control+x)
Then log onto the cool site at Textfixer.
Paste (control+v) your text into the first box and your text will be miraculously cleaned up and reformatted. Like this:
Now just copy and paste into your word processor and it’s all done.
Choose your font and page format and you’re ready to print. I like to use Arial Narrow font and make the page margins a little narrower than the default.
I also like to add some headers and/or footers.
Then you can print out your story.
