Recent Posts by skgaines

Topic: Miscellaneous / Help! I have spent hours and have little to show!

Don’t give up – I just submitted my second memorypress book. The first one was tedious and I felt like you but the results were wonderful. Liz helped me through that first one and I would encourage you to use the phone support. The second one was much easier and I only had to call on Liz a few times and for brief questions.

The system does sometimes take time as it re-typesets every time you make a change. I hope the following helps. It is likely that your text is still there. I haven’t done this since the first book (last summer) but I think you click on the trash can and any deletions will be there to put back if they are lost. Also, I do suggest that you type in a Word document but format in Memorypress. What I do is type in Word, cut and paste into Memorypress. I type single-space and then format once I have in Memorypress. The memorypress support may have a better way to suggest but this worked great for me this time around. I have forgotten where on the site it is but there are instructions for formatting once a text is in Memorypress, e.g., hitting the return key three times if you want a space between paragraphs, indenting, etc. These were very helpful.

A faster way to navigate is to use the navigation arrow, clicking on the chapter you want to go to. This is faster than using the directional arrows to go left or right.

I hope this helps. Again, I encourage you to call for technical support. I have never worked with a company that has been helpful as Memorypress – I cannot say enough about their technical support. If you can stay with it, you will not be disappointed with the results. Last year, sixty copies of my very lengthy family memory book went like hotcakes and our family is still raving about the content (of course) but also because of the professional quality of the book (one cousin said, if I had known this was going to be a real book, I would have written my memory more carefully).

Best wishes for success on your book.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / order of pages

I just reformatted the font size of my Table of Contents so that it will be on one page. You could also do this by making it two columns instead of one if your titles are not too long. To change the font size, click on “Change Layout” and then you will see a faint ~ on the page (not under the list of types of layout. Click on the ~ and choose Table of Contents. There, you can change the font and style. This is my second book and I just discovered this feature. I really like having the feature because it allows me to customize my book. I hope this helps.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Reformatting

I am having trouble with the pages reformatting and then I am unable to repair them to the format I want. For example, today, when I reformatted to justify left, the text at first was centered and then justified right. I cannot get the text to reformat. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Deleting Photos

Is there a way to delete photos from the “Add a Photo” box. I uploaded some that I do not want to use or store. I can move photos to “trash” from the edit pages but this still leaves them in the “Add a Photo” box. Thank you.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Editing a Page

I decided to edit a page and removed the Table of Contents heading, thinking it would merge into the text above it. The entire text disappeared. I hope that it is completely gone and not “hidden” somewhere to perhaps so up in my final product. When I “click” on “Manage Custom Pages”, I do not see text on the pages so I cannot check there. Any words of advice? Thanks.