This video is AMAZING and so incredibly helpful. I just started using Book Bolt a couple days ago and I definitely needed some help 😅 I’ll be watching your playlist next. Thanks!!
This was absolutely fantastic! Genuinely enjoyed this video. I feel more comfortable with having a general idea of using the software and some of its tools. It is still a learning curve, but I look forward to purchasing the software and using outside sources for photos and fonts to help create my covers if need be. Thank you so much for all that you do.
After watching many tutorials, your video was the only one that was truly helpful. Subscribed! Thanks. I tried to make my first wordsearch puzzle book and things were going well until I realized (AFTER designing all the interior pages) that I hadn't chosen an appropriate page count, and when Bookbolt generated my thirty specialized puzzles it only had room for twenty of the answer keys! Live and learn-- I'll start over again.
Thank you so much, Craig, for sharing your experience and knowledge. I bought Book Bolt Pro yesterday, and I was utterly lost. I use Affinity Designer for creating (drawing) puzzles and mazes. But this process is a lot of work. I stumbled upon Book Bolt, and was very sceptic at first but just bought it without thinking about "how it works"! Before I came across your tutorial, I was lost because the Book Bolt tutorials didn't work for me. I needed something more "all-in". I found exactly what I needed in your tutorial. When I see your tutorial, I see a "master" at work. Your way of explaining is very easy to follow for a newbie like myself. So thank you again for your great tutorial and truly save my day and investment. I really do hope to see more of your work! Kind Regards, Chris
I loved BookBolt, however the near 50 designs I created under the old format were completely deleted once the new format was introduced. All of the work I'd worked so hard to design had vanished. Bookbolt was not at all helpful stating that it had nothing to do with the new format, but that I must have deleted my cache, which I had not. Nothing could be restored, and Bookbolt's dismissive attitude was very disappointing. I deleted my account.
It sucks that that happened, but what you have to remember is that the Book Bolt Designer is a piece of software, not an online storage site. Their saved designs section is more like the temporary cache you see when you open up Photoshop and you see the last 20 projects you worked on. Those projects don't stay in Photoshop either, they eventually get replaced by your more recent projects. This is the reason an Adobe subscription offers 1GB of storage space, as well as the option to save your working files to your "own" computer. That being said, that's also why Adobe has a much more expensive subscription price. If Book Bolt was to save every users data indefinitely, they would have to add in a lot more servers and raise the price of their subscription to cover that cost. It would be nice if Book Bolt gave you a way to save your working files to your own computer for later use, but that would probably require a lot more coding, which would end up raising the price of their service. If you had saved your designs in Book Bolt and every few days opened those designs and modified them in some way and then re-saved them, they probably would have stayed around longer. Put if you hadn't touched them for 30 or more days, then they just become cache that's eventually erased. Book Bolt is an inexpensive and minimal alternative to much pricier software subscriptions like Adobe. If you want all of the bells and whistles that come with professional software, you have to be willing to pay the higher price.
Oh my goodness. I am sincerely so upset to hear that happened to you. Hours and hours of painstaking focus go into creating everything we do. I feel for you. I can’t imagine why that happened. It sure makes you afraid to trust them in the future.
@@benicio1967 The old Book Bolt designer had a lot of issues with it. Fortunately, the new Book Bolt Studio now archives projects after about 4 weeks. You can still access them after they've been archived, it just takes a little while longer to open them (it's probably because they're on a different server).
@@CraigBabin thank you so much for this information. I was using Canva but canceled my subscription a couple of weeks ago. They told me my designs would be deleted in 30 days after cancelling my subscription but I did download my designs to my computer. I assume they’re perfectly safe now that they’re on my own pc. I just subscribed to your channel today. I’m glad I checked and saw I hadn’t subscribed before. This is a great channel and you have a great presence and communicate so well. Thanks again!
Just a quick easy question: Even pages are on the left, and Odd pages are on the right, correct? So if I want the words on the left, and the grid for the word search on the right, I would need to have 2&3, 4&5, 6&7 correct?
Correct. Page 1 is on the right hand side because the inside of the cover is on the left hand side. So each future page spread would be 2&3, 4&5, 6&7, etc.
How to automate this ? for example designing the layout that I want and upload my csv . is every time should I change the Name for example " Puzzle 1, Puzzle 2, puzzle 3...."
Hi Craig, your video super helpful. I am pulling my hair out here I have multiple times tried to submit my csv file and it says there are not enough words!! I have recounted manually a number of times as well as calculated on the spreadsheet, I have 600 word, I want 15 in each puzzle so that would be 40 pages plus 7 for the solutions .... I am baffled as to why it keeps saying there are not enough words. Any clue?? Appreciate your help!
Try adding in another 30 words or so. Not all puzzles can be designed to fit just any 15 words. Remember, you're dealing with a finite amount of letters in the puzzle, so some groupings of words just may not work together. You need to give the puzzle generator a few more options just in case it can't make certain words work properly together. If you still can't get it to work, turn on the "use random words" option in the generator, that should solve your problem.
I haven't even began my WordSearch project but i yet but I know the answer because I've read enough information overtime. No one seems to be remembering to " teach" the FACT that this tool views a "PAGE" as NOT a single side but rather a SIDE- BY-SIDE. If you imagine TEARING AWAY A PAGE are you tearing away one side of it? Think like that. No, you can't tear away part of it, you're tearing away SIDE BY SIDE content. Hence, if you have SIDE BY SIDE content of 15 words, that is the page containing 30! In summary if you have 600 words how many 30's can you have. The answer is 20. You can therefore only get 20 FULL.PAGES (aka side by side content) 600 words. You are telling the system you want 40 Pages so it is telling you that you are short on words bcuz for the system 40 PAGES is 1200 words. I really hope this helps
@@sharondennis1914 I think you're misreading his post Sharon. He wants to use "600 words" in his book with "40 puzzles" at "15 words" per puzzle. His math is correct: 15 X 40 = 600. Secondly, if you tear away a page (delete) from the book, you're not deleting a spread, you're deleting the front side of a page. Every page has two sides to it (a front and back side) ... which is why the page count of your book must be an even number in a multiple of 4. So if your book has 84 pages in it and you delete 1 page side (from Book Bolt Studio) , that would leave your page count as an odd number 83. So you'd have to delete a second page side to make the count even. But, you would still have an issue, because 82 is not a multiple of 4. Printers lay out books in spreads, not pages. And each spread has 4 page sides to it. The left page of the spread has a front and back side and so does the right page of the spread. And this is why your books page count needs to be an even number that is a multiple of 4. But if you do happen to layout your book in an even number that is "not" a multiple of 4, like I do in this video (76 pages), KDP will just add 2 additional blank pages to your book when printing, to balance it out. So it's not a huge deal. This is a point that I make very clear in many of my other self publishing videos. The reason that I don't explain this concept in every video, is because then my videos would just become a regurgitation of the same content. These videos aren't meant to be stand alone, they're part of my "Self Publishing 101" playlist, which I put a link to at the end of every video. Page Count Example #1: ruclips.net/video/J5IvD_-3KBo/видео.html Page Count Example #2: ruclips.net/video/iQYaYQ9MqJ0/видео.html
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Easy to follow and with a pleasant sounding voice 😊 That makes a change to some other RUclips demonstrators. I will definitely purchase the software on the basis of watching this video, and will click your affiliate link as my way of thanking you. Keep on the great work 🙌🏼 It’d be great if you could make a similar video for crossword puzzles ❤
Just starting out in kdp and I would like to start with puzzle books. Would you reccomend any particular type of puzzle Book to start with eg. Crosswords, suduko, word search etc. And what software would you use. Thanks
If you want to start with puzzle books, Book Bolt has a great puzzle generator as well as desk top publishing software and research tools. And you can save 20% by using my promo code and link that's in the description section of the video you just watched. As for which type of puzzle book to start with, word search are good, and if you're a little patient, I'll have a brand new video dropping later this week that walks you step by step through the process of creating a Sudoku puzzle book.
No, and it's for the very reason you just mentioned. Because it's creating the cover at the same time, it needs to make all of the calculations ahead of time. But it's the same with KDP; once you've uploaded your cover, you can't change the number of pages in your interior, without redoing your cover. That's why you need to plan out your book ahead of time. If you're not sure how many pages your book is going to be, then create your interior first by itself (which you can do in Book Bolt). Then once you have that finalized, create your cover separately.
Criag, this was great....but a little too advanced and fast pace for your skill level. I did have 5 take aways that I can implement in the book I'm designing. Thank you!
This is the second video I've watched that completely skims over how to group the solutions on the same page. I finished one activity book and just ended up doing one per page because for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to combine several pages onto one. Yes, I know how to shrink the size of the solution, but that doesn't tell me how to put more than one on the same page.
How old is this one? I don't even see the Layers Icon. I just started and What I am seeing on Book Bolt is so much different. Do you have any videos with the New Book Bolt Software? Thanks
Great video & very informative! I'm having some issues with the number of pages left over from grouping the solutions puzzles together. If I create the number of pages I need & it doesn't load all of the solution puzzles. But if I create enough pages for all of the solution puzzles to load, after I condense them to fit 6 on a page, I have blank pages left over that I can't delete.
Hi, Craig! Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciate it and I bought your interior bundle, as well. I have one question: I started making a puzzle book but I have too many pages...can I delete unwanted pages? Or do I need to start all over again? Thanks!
If you look in the left hand column where your pages are laid out for you vertically, all you have to do is right click on the page you want to delete, and then choose "delete" form the popup menu.
Hi Craig... Can I ask you a quick question, please? You made 60 puzzles and you created 74 pages. 60 Pages for Puzzles, 10 for solutions (6 on each page), and 4 for your other stuff. You moved 6 puzzles to one page after they were on 6 pages. Please correct me if I am wrong. So, what did you do with these pages after moving from 6 to one page? Did you delete these extra pages? It's confusing. I am making 100 Puzzles and I created 203 pages. If I move 6 puzzles to 1 page then what do I do with the pages where there were solutions? Won't it mess up the Spine? Thanks
@@CraigBabinThank you! Craig, you make things too complicated :) but I really liked this puzzle and I am trying to do what you taught us. I appreciate it a lot. Thanks
Any ideas why my cover layers keep changing order even after saving, when I leave the page to work on the puzzle pages? Also, what do do when it DOESN'T load the solutions pages but fills the entire thing with just puzzles? I figured out where I went wrong on both occasions. :P
Nothing should change after you save the page out. I've never heard of layers moving by themselves. You may want to submit a ticket to Book Bolt for that one. As for only getting puzzles and no solutions, double check to make sure that you have the solution option turned on in the generator, and make sure you have enough blank pages in your book, for the number of puzzles, as well as the number of solutions you want to create. (ie 50 puzzles + 50 solutions = 100 blank pages needed).
So, your Labels are made in Illustrator and not in Photoshop. Correct? I am interested in these Labels but I don't have Illustrator so I won't be able to modify them. Do you have them in Photoshop in PSD Files? Thanks
Each label comes individually as a PNG file. So you can use them in any software. You just won't be able to modify the colors of them. I only have the working file in an AI format, because I wanted them to be vector based.
I was watching this again and my question is you made this on one page and you can spend a lot of time on one page but what about if you have 40 to 60 puzzles then we will have to spend so much time on each and every puzzle? Put Borders on every Puzzle and then do other modifications with the words and so on. That will make me crazy :)
Let me guess, you thought that graphic designers and artists just pushed a button and everything magically appeared?! lol. Making a living as a creative person is hard work. But it's a small price to pay for a business that deposits passive income into your bank account every month. You can create your first puzzle, and then after hiding the letters and clue words, just clone the page onto all of your other puzzle pages. Then all you have to do is copy and paste the puzzle letters and clue words from all of your generated puzzle pages.
@@CraigBabinThank You! You Know looks like God didn't put that creative part in me. :) You should make such complicated videos for those who don't have a creative brain. I have finally progressed. Thank You.
If you're referring to the number of columns in the puzzle itself ... no. But if you're referring to the columns of words, then yes. Watch this video here to see how to do it: ruclips.net/video/5oVISKReCBk/видео.html
signed up with Bookbolt, stuck on downloading interior and cover...? With zip file...? Can't move forward. Do you have an instructional video on this? Or, can I pay you for an hour or two to coach me on this? Thanks. Lew
@@lewstone8394 You said you were having a problem downloading the project in the ZIP file. That is how you open the zip file. If that's not what you meant, you need to explain your problem better.
Select your text, go to the text tool bar above your art board and click on the text size icon, it looks like this "aA". Or you can adjust the size when you are generating puzzles. You'll be given the option to do so in the "options" pop up menu that appears after you choose which pages you want your puzzles on. Watch here: 9:33
Hi Craig. I have a bit of a problem. I am trying to set up my alphabet soup. I get a board with 16 columns x 16 rows, is there any way to change that configuration? Thanks in advance for your help. I learn a lot from your videos.
The configuration should default at 17 X 17 and I don't think there's a way to change that. You can change the dimensions of the puzzle letter board by adding in wider margins in the margin setting at the top of the puzzle generator menu, but that's pretty much it. You're stuck with 17 X 17, unless you change the length of your words. Really long words will probably result in more columns and rows.
If you're referring to Arabic subtitles, that's a feature that you have to turn on in the video player menu. Just click on the "CC" in the bottom menu to turn on Closed Caption. Then click on the little "gear" icon (settings), choose "subtitles" from the drop down menu and then "auto translate". Then just pick Arabic from the options.
THANK YOU!! Your video answered a pressing critical question for me: how to move around in the artboard!! Nowhere in the tutorials or FAQs does it say how to move around in the artboard. I tried using the scrollwheel, and pairing that with the Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Windows key... did not think to use the SPACEBAR! THANKS A MILLION!
Hahaha, trust me, I tried all of those combinations as well the first few times I used the software. I think anyone who has ever worked in any type of professional photo editing software, is going to stumble on that. Glad I could help!
Great video, but I have a question. When you create the book, you check the box to add the solutions, right? So, 16 puzzles = 16 solution pages, or a total of 32 pages. If you have 16 puzzles, you will need 16 solutions. So, you could put 4 solutions on 4 pages dedicated to the solutions. I am doing a book with 24 puzzles in it. That would mean that I would need 6 pages dedicated to solutions, if I put 4 solutions on each page. Or 4 pages if I put 6 solutions on each page. So, I planned that way when I created my project. 24 puzzles plus 6 pages for solutions would equal 30 pages. But when I tried that, I only got 6 puzzle solution pages. How do I see all the solutions so I can copy them onto the solutions pages? Hope I am not being too confusing here, but I am confused. LOL Hey, I will take help from anybody.
Dale!!!! You're giving me flashbacks to grade 11 algebra and those two damn men on different trains! lol If you're going to have 24 puzzles, you need to create your book with 48 pages (24 puzzles and 24 solutions). Then after you've combined your solutions (by copying and pasting them) onto 6 pages (4 to a page), you delete the remaining 16 blank pages from your book. The spine on your books' cover will automatically be adjusted to account for the deleted pages.
Well, when you put it like that! LOL. I guess I did take the long way around the barn, but I was trying to make sure you got the picture. Anyway, I guess you answered my question. So, if I decide to consolidate the solutions, say 4 to a page, I just go back and delete the excess pages I originally created, and then all is well in Book Bolt land! Thanks for your speedy reply. Here is another question. I am trying to create a multi-puzzle type book. I thought I would do 5 different types of puzzles with 5 puzzles each. To keep it simple, I will just figure that means I will need to create a book with 50 pages, a total of 25 puzzles and 25 puzzle solution pages. Correct? The first 5 puzzles are to be word search puzzles with 20 words per puzzle. I created my word list using ChatGPT. I got 20 words on 5 different subjects, so, a total of 100 words. I copy and pasted them into my spreadsheet separated by one row between each group of words. Next, I went to Book Bolt and set up my project. I wanted to create the interior only as I will create my cover in Canva. I set my book as a 6"x 9" paperback and used "Bleed". Next, I followed your video and set my margins to 0.25 and selected the first 5 pages in the template creator. I selected that I wanted each puzzle to have a max of 20 words. So, here's the problem. When I uploaded my csv file into Book Bolt, I expected each puzzle to have 20 words, but instead, they came out with a different number of words to search in them. The first had 20 words, but the next one had only 7 words, and on and on. Each puzzle with a different number of words. Where did I go wrong here? I mean, I have tried to do 16 words max per puzzle, 15 words max per puzzle, 10 words, each time the puzzles loaded with an uneven number of words. Can you help me figure this out? I have done several puzzle books, word search books, and never had this problem. I would do 25 puzzles with 25 words each. I would always get just that followed by 25 solution pages. But this has me stumped. Any suggestions you may have will be appreciated. Thanks
@@dalehan123 I honestly have no idea why it would do that. The only thing that I can think of is that some of your words are over 20 characters in length, and since they're not usable, the generator is dividing up the ones that are between each puzzle. Try doing one puzzle at a time. Or try removing the blank space between your word sets in your CSV file. If that doesn't work, submit a help ticket to Book Bolt.
@@CraigBabin Ok, thanks again Craig. Yes, some words are not single words. I have used names of places like the name golf course, etc. I wasn't aware that was a problem in Excel. Like I said, I created the word list using ChatGPT, and it renders a list that is un-editable. After I pasted them into Excel, I tried to edit them, but, no go! Excel will accept the list, but there is no way to edit the cells. I can't even highlight the part that I would like to erase. Anyway, I thank your again for your prompt reply.
Craig, this tutorial is EXACTLY what I have scouring the YT world for!! Thank You Good Sir!!! I have a question - I want to make my covers using Affinity. Is it possible to import already-made cover files into Book Bolt?? Thanks!
I wasn't actually showing you how to do it at that point, I was just showing you that it was still possible to do in the new studio. To create a pattern with an image, just select the image on your art board, then go over to the left hand tool bar and choose the make pattern icon (it's the one that looks like a brick wall). When the popup menu opens asking you if you want to create a pattern the selected object, just click okay. As you scale the image up, more of the pattern will appear.
Hi Craig. I am creating my book in batches of 10 puzzles. I have 61 pages loaded for the puzzles and solutions. How do I add the next batch of puzzles to the current book?
The same way you added the first batch. Select the page you want the puzzles to start on and click the "page templates" icon in the tool bar. Then just select the puzzle template you want to use and go through the same steps you did for the first batch.
Thank you so much for such a great tutorial on word search. However, Is it possible to make a crossword puzzle book in bookbolt? if so, would you kindly make a video on it please?
Thanks a lot for all your videos, I'm learning a lot from you. I just have one question though about the interior making process. I made the interior of a wide lined journal and then it brought me to an options window where you could set the margins (not the page ones obviously), the space between line and stroke thickness...I got all that but then at the bottom there is something called the "Bleed Mode" where it gives me a choice between "Work Area (consider KDP margins)" and "Paper"...I don't get this part, which bleed are they talking about exactly? since I know I already set the format to "no bleed" and I doubt they are reffering to that to begin with. It would be super helpful if you could guide me through this part in case you have some knowledge about it. Thank you so much again!
If you choose "Work Area", your lines will stop at the green KDP margins. If you choose "Paper", then you're lines will bleed right off of the edge of the page.
You skipped the margin set out? I contacted the BB help desk, how do I change the margins, they never said yes or no, so if you don't get it right you have to start again.
The KDP margins (the green dotted lines) are fixed and can't be changed. They are set up to KDP's specifications. You have to keep your content inside of those lines. This is why I said bring your content in without margins, that way you can just scale it to fit the KDP margins.
Thx for the reply, but; At 6:56 you have a wider gutter margin? where do you set that/them? I need to get this margin thing sorted before I can move on. 😉 May be it's because I'm on the 3 day trial and you are on the pro version? Who's ever heard of a 3 day trial? it's not even the pro version, at least with something like Photoshop you get a month, full version.
@@stevesculptor1 The gutter, top, bottom and outside margins are all preset in the Book Bolt studio. They're set up to KDP's recommendations, and they can't be changed. But when you add content using the "page template" icon in the left menu, you'll be given the option to add additional space (margins) around your content. The margins that you're adding there are in addition to the KDP margins, unless you set the bleed mode to "paper" instead of "work area" in the options menu of the page template. You can only set the additional margins on content that is being uploaded from the "page template" section. Anything that you're importing from outside of Book Bolt, has to be lined up on the page itself using the preset margins provided. Your best option is to just use the preset margins (the little green dotted lines) that come from KDP and push your page content right up to those lines. Unless you want a full bleed, then just drag your content right off the edge of the page.
Thank you so much for this excellent video! Have an additional question. Do you know if you can add pages to the puzzle book created outside of Book Bolt, or if it is possible to export this book bolt file in to another publishing software to add additional pages?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Book Bolt only exports projects in PDF format and that it's using it's own native file format when the project is being worked on. But you can bring pages from an outside book, into Book Bolt as either PDF's or PNG files, and then copy and paste them on to blank pages inside of the Book Bolt Studio. But ultimately, you have to create the entire book inside of the studio.
Quick Question for you, please? Do we have any option to remove the background of an image on the Book bolt? If we bring an image from outside to the book bolt then changing color becomes a little difficult. Sometimes it is difficult to find a Png image. Thanks
No, you can't remove a background in Book Bolt. But you can always remove it in Photoshop or Photopea.com , before you bring it into Book Bolt. Just make sure to export it out as a PNG.
@@CraigBabinWow! That is sad that Book Bolt is missing such a major necessity. That is what I am doing. I am removing BG in Photoshop and then bringing it to Book Bolt. How can they lack such a big functionality? Thanks
@@shoppersdream You can't compare Book Bolt to Photoshop, it's not meant to be a replacement for it. It's a book publishing software. It's meant to be a hybrid of Photoshop and InDesign. Can Photoshop generate puzzles? No! Does InDesign provide you with market research for your competition? No! Can you do graphic design in InDesign? No! Can you lay out a book in Photoshop? No! And a subscription to both of those software apps costs way more than a subscription to Book Bolt! Book Bolt is designed purely for book publishing, and if you look at all of the features it gives you, you'll find that there is nothing else on the market that even comes close to it for that price! I wish my big screen TV doubled as a toaster oven, so that I wouldn't have to get off of the couch to make something to eat ... but you can't have everything.
Hi I finally finish and was able to upload to CSV. However, after the last page, the soluton page does not come up after the last page. Does it matter whether you use a mac laptop? I even created a ticket twice and no avail.
When you upload the CSV, there must be enough blank pages in your book so that each solution can be placed on it's own page. Did you account for that? You can place the solutions 6 to a page after they are created and then just delete the extra blank pages. So if you are creating 50 puzzles, you need to make sure that you have at least 100 blank pages. Also, on the puzzle generator page, make sure you have checked the box to add the solutions.
Great video, really informative. I'd be interested to know what information you included on the copyright page. Do you have to credit Book Bold in any way?
No you don't have to credit Book Bolt, they're just the software you used to layout your book. If you want to see what one of my copyright pages look like, just use the "Look Inside" feature to see the first few pages of one of my books. You can find one here: amzn.to/3wpYCfS
Thanks for this detailed video. I am getting an error msg 'not enough words' when I try to load my csv file. How can I fix it? When we input the Max words per page as 10, can we still have some pages with less than 10 words or does it have to be exactly 10 ?
It's best to have more words in your CSV file than you need in your book. Not all words will work together in all puzzles, so the generator may not be able to deliver what you're asking for. To answer your second question, if you generate the puzzles separately, you can have whatever number of words you want in each puzzle. But if you generate them all at once, then they will all have the same amount of words in them.
@@CraigBabin I am trying to do a knowledge based wordsearch on a subject matter. So answers are precise and cannot add extra words. I am trying to load a few pages at a time separately and still getting the error message.
@@truthseeker9416 The only reason that you should be getting that error message, is if you stipulated that you wanted 10 words to a puzzle and for whatever reason, the generator couldn't make those 10 words fit in the same puzzle. Since it is unable to deliver what you're asking of it, it gives you an error. The only thing I would suggest is try requesting fewer words in each puzzle. If that doesn't work, submit a help ticket with Book Bolt to see if they can figure it out.
Thanks for your outstanding effort. After choosing the punches that I will use in the book, I want to change all letters from lowercase letters to uppercase letters, but I am afraid of changing the meanings of words. Can you help because English is not the mother tongue?
Changing letters from lowercase to uppercase doesn't change the meaning in English. Just select all of your letters and use the "aA" tool in the text menu to change them to uppercase.
Update: I believe you addressed my concern in your video and BTW, that was fabulous!🤗 I can never get my template to fill the center of the page like yours. It's always off to the side and when I enlarge it the template becomes too big for the screen and still off to the side. Definitely hinders my design time when trying to enlarge it so I can see the details better. During a Book Bolt Live session someone else was experiencing the same issue. I tried the suggestion that was given to her but it did not help. 😕
If I understand you correctly, you're talking about the art board itself. Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out, and hold down either the scroll wheel or the left mouse button, as well as the space bar on your keyboard, to reposition the art board to where you want it.
hi thanks for the tutorial. how are you able to move the clues individually and arrange them in order with equal spacing and well lined up. i was not able to do this. i tried using the grid in the book bolt studio but was unable to achieve this. the words were not well arranged and the spacings were off.
Just place your cursor after the first clue and then hit your space bar a few times. Then repeat on the second clue, third clue and so on. You can also select a number of the words and then cut and paste them on to their own layer and then just line them up underneath one another. If you have 16 words, do this 4 times and you'll be left with 4 columns that are left justified.
Hi Craig! Thanks so much for your videos. I have a question about saving project files and pages in BB: In a previous video, you said that we had to render/export our projects within a few days because BB erases files in its cache (or wherever). Is that still the case? The reason I ask is that I have a feeling that completing my first few books will take more than a few days. I'd like to be able to resume work on a project that I started more than a week or two in the past. Why would BB put such stressful time limits on creators anyway? (unless I misunderstood your previous video). I'm hoping that the new BB would do away with this time constraint. Thank you.
No, that's no longer the case. If your project is untouched for more than 30 days, Book Bolt archives it. All that does is removes it from the cache and saves it to a back up server. You can still access it when you open the BB Studio, it's just going to take a few seconds longer to open. Your projects will be saved for as long as you have a subscription.
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thank uu, i have a question should we put all the words in USPTO TO check if there is a trademark orr it not dangerous because it is small and not in the title?
@@sofia-w1u4v If you're just using normal words, you'll be fine. You just can't use trademarked words in your books title, or in your book, if you're using them in a derogatory or demeaning way toward the company you're mentioning. And since you're book is only a word search book, then you're not doing that. There's no need to search out all of the words in USTPO.
How do you zoom into one section? I am trying to work on the heading of a page but I can't seem to get there. When I zoom in, it just zooms into one part of the page. There are no scroll bars to navigate around the page.
This was really nice but very fast. I will have to watch it many times to totally understand all your steps. If you will be a little slow then maybe Newbies will be able to get some benefits. Thanks
@@CraigBabinThank You! Please make more videos with Book Bolt Studio. I just started in Feb only and I want to learn how to make Puzzle Books. Do you have courses on Udemy on Book Bolt Studio with KDP? Thanks
@@shoppersdream Here are some other videos you may be interested in: How to create Dot to Dot Books in Book Bolt: ruclips.net/video/iQYaYQ9MqJ0/видео.html How to Make $1000 per month in Book Bolt: ruclips.net/video/eF-Q77UQFL8/видео.html (This one uses the old software, but the research tools and design tips are still useful). How to Create Coloring Books (Part 1): ruclips.net/video/ax7nVKQjBTk/видео.html How to Create Coloring Books (Part 2): ruclips.net/video/a_TCT2gKpCQ/видео.html (These two deal with Creative Fabrica, but the design tips can be used in Book Bolt). There will be more in the future.
The RAR file is a zip file that the bundle comes packed in, if you can't open it, you can download free RAR extraction software here: bit.ly/3DzYugp All of the documents are PDF format in the bundle. If your computer is trying to open them with notepad, it's because you don't have the Adobe Acrobat software on your computer. You can download it for free here: get.adobe.com/reader/
thank you so much for this video.I was trying to figure out whether to purchase book bolt as an investment for the long haul.I'm for sure buying it now
I wouldn't go as far as to say not sellable, in simple puzzles like these, people very rarely need the solutions. Just giving them an indication of where the hidden words are in the puzzle, for most people would be enough. But I agree, the solution pages would be much better if the words were circled as one entire word as opposed to as individual letters. I've made a comment to the development team at Book Bolt about this, hopefully they'll fix this soon.
If I was using Canva, I'd probably just render out as RGB as well. The only time rendering out in CMYK is advantageous to you, is when you have access to Pantone swatches. I've never used Canva before, but I highly doubt that you have access to Pantone swatches. KDP printers can get pretty good results with RGB, so unless you're using a software program like Adobe, I'd just stick to RGB.
@@marihay I think they removed it because they're trying to give you all of the functionality to design your books inside of the studio, rather than take images outside and design them in other software.
This was wonderful! I am still thinking about Bookbolt..? 🤔🙂 Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. It makes it a more viable decision. 🙌🏼☕🤓💯🙏🏼👏🏼
Here's a little piece of advice that may help you make your decision. There's a good chance that Book Bolt will have a Black Friday special this November. Book Bolt notifies me ahead of time to let me know if they do. I'll post in my community section to let my subscribers know the sale is coming. So if you're subscribed to my channel and you have the bell notification turned on for all notifications, you'll get the notification that I've posted something in my community section. Then, if you use my affiliate link in the description section of this video, you'll save 20%. And if the sale is the same as last year, you'll also get an additional 40% off. Which will give you 60% off of a 1 year subscription. That's how it worked last year anyway.
@@CraigBabin If Book Bolt sale repeats for this year then I will definitely sign up through your affiliate link. Now to look at some more of your videos. Thank you for the heads up. Have a great weekend. ☕🙌🏼💯😁
Thanks so much for this! Was able to successfully follow along with your video to create my 1st word search. The only issue that came up is right clicking to edit the content. Nothing happens when I right click. Any other way you know of to access the feature to edit the content?
1. Make sure that the layer you want to edit is unlocked. 2. Make sure that you have selected the content you want to edit (in other words, there is a green bounding box around it). 3. Make sure you're right clicking "inside" of the green bounding box. If none of that works, submit a help ticket to Book Bolt, you have a glitch.
Fair enough. The only reason I included that was because I had seen other videos that were reviewing the new studio that were saying not much had changed. I just wanted to make sure that anyone who had used Book Bolt in the past and didn't like it because of those reasons, new that it had improved quite a bit. That's also why I put in the chapters, so that you can skip parts you don't want to watch. I'll be sure to cut out the flash backs in the future.
I’m new to kdp and this was great. My question is when uploading to kdp how do you upload the interior and cover separate since in bookbolt it is saved together in 1 when doing the cover and interior together.
The project is saved out of Book Bolt in one ZIP folder, but once you get inside the folder, both the cover and the interior are two separate PDF files.
Craig, FYI, there might be a bug with the puzzle generator. When I am attempting to use the Word Search generator, even though my CSV file is using all capital letters, the word list clues are all being converted to lower case. I have sent a ticket over to them, and am awaiting for their reply, but if you have any suggestions, or can try this out form your end I would like to hear about it also.
Once you've loaded your puzzle on to your page, select it, right lick on it and choose edit contents. Then group select all of the words in lower case, then go to up to the text tool menu, above your art board and use the "Capitalize Letters" tool to change all of the letters to upper case. It's the icon with the small "a" that has an arrow pointing to a capital "A".
Thanks for the video. I tried to make a book with word search puzzles in Bookbolt. It turned out that depending on the length of the words this service decides the size of the grid itself. I set it up to have 20 words in each puzzle. As a result, Bookbolt generated a different number of rows and columns in each puzzle! I got so that out of 50 pages, part of it was 15*15, another part 16*16 and even 1 puzzle came out 20*20! (I contacted Bookbolt technical support and they confirmed that I cannot set the grid size on my end, the program does it automatically.) How do the buyers of the book feel about that? How do you overcome such difficulties? Thank you
Most word search puzzle books should have a consistent level of difficulty throughout. Try to make sure that there are an even number of long words and shorter words in each puzzle. If you do that, your puzzle grids should stay pretty consistent as well. If they do vary by one or two rows or columns, I really don't think anyone will notice. Just as long as the theme and the level of difficulty, remain the same throughout.
@@CraigBabin Thanks for your comment! I didn't think people were interested in solving words of the same length. I thought it was the other way around - they wanted to do the short ones, and to wrestle with the long ones.)
@@Laikina_Art They don't all have to be long, but if your puzzles are going to have 20 words in them, make sure each puzzle has 10 long words, 5 medium words and 5 short words. By keeping that format throughout, your column and row numbers should stay consistent.
This video is golden! Thank you. I was struggling with using the new Book Bolt Studio features. But you really clarified a lot of details which resolved my confusion problems. Thank you!
You can do it manually just by adding a number to the bottom of each page. As for adding pages, you can do that as well. In the left hand menu there is a blue button under each individual page that allows you to add additional pages.
I think the main issues I am having is lining up the words after they are generated. For example, if I am asking for 20 words each, instead of it neatly stacking four columns, it is providing three columns, the first two being seven words, and the last column laying out six words. It's sort of frustrating, but I might be too anal to let it go also. The two books I purchased has them neatly lined up the way I want it, so not sure if there is an easy way of doing this
There is an easier way. Just use the grid generator with 4 or 5 vertical rows (which ever you prefer). Make sure your snap tool is turned on at the bottom of the page. Then just type out each word individually and then snap them up against each respective vertical line on your grid ... until you have 4 or 5 columns of words. The first letter of every word should be perfectly left justified in each column. If you're not sure how to use the grid generator, watch my video on how to create connect the dot books in Book Bolt. I go over using the grid in that video.
awesome... but book bolt is not providing diagonal words in word search, I am disappointed.. but you are using diagonal example in cover.. this could bring bad reviews, am I right ?
I spoke with the Bolt Bolt development team and one of the things they're working on right now is diagonal and reverse words, as well as a better solution page. So I included it in the video, because I wanted the video to remain current once the change is released. They're updating pretty fast, so it shouldn't be long now. I put it in the video as a way to put pressure on them to get it done. lol
JUST SUBSCRIBED because of your warm personality and AMAZING CONTENT....Thanks much and great job Craig 😃
You're too kind Racquel! Thanks for the sub.
This was just the information I needed as a newbie to Book Bolt and KDP! Thank you for a clear, thorough and helpful tutorial! Subscribed!
I'm glad it was helpful Vickie!
This video is AMAZING and so incredibly helpful. I just started using Book Bolt a couple days ago and I definitely needed some help 😅 I’ll be watching your playlist next. Thanks!!
You're quite welcome Jessica.
Thanks Craig! I could watch you make covers all day. Please more videos of that. ❤
Thank you! I will.
This was absolutely fantastic! Genuinely enjoyed this video. I feel more comfortable with having a general idea of using the software and some of its tools. It is still a learning curve, but I look forward to purchasing the software and using outside sources for photos and fonts to help create my covers if need be. Thank you so much for all that you do.
I'm glad you found the video useful Alex.
After watching many tutorials, your video was the only one that was truly helpful. Subscribed! Thanks. I tried to make my first wordsearch puzzle book and things were going well until I realized (AFTER designing all the interior pages) that I hadn't chosen an appropriate page count, and when Bookbolt generated my thirty specialized puzzles it only had room for twenty of the answer keys! Live and learn-- I'll start over again.
Yeah, planning out your book ahead of time is definitely a must with Book Bolt.
Wow! I really love this! Exactly what I was looking for. You’re amazing! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Always a pleasure to learn from someone who actually knows what they are talking about, as is evident when watching your design skills.
I'm just glad I'm able to help people Basil.
Thank you so much, Craig, for sharing your experience and knowledge. I bought Book Bolt Pro yesterday, and I was utterly lost. I use Affinity Designer for creating (drawing) puzzles and mazes. But this process is a lot of work. I stumbled upon Book Bolt, and was very sceptic at first but just bought it without thinking about "how it works"!
Before I came across your tutorial, I was lost because the Book Bolt tutorials didn't work for me. I needed something more "all-in". I found exactly what I needed in your tutorial. When I see your tutorial, I see a "master" at work. Your way of explaining is very easy to follow for a newbie like myself.
So thank you again for your great tutorial and truly save my day and investment. I really do hope to see more of your work!
Kind Regards,
Chris
Thank you for the kind words Chris, I'm glad you found my video useful.
this tutorial was sooo amazing. so informative and details and it hit the targeted obstacles I ran into. Thanks a ton.
I'm glad you liked it Jasmine.
I loved BookBolt, however the near 50 designs I created under the old format were completely deleted once the new format was introduced. All of the work I'd worked so hard to design had vanished. Bookbolt was not at all helpful stating that it had nothing to do with the new format, but that I must have deleted my cache, which I had not. Nothing could be restored, and Bookbolt's dismissive attitude was very disappointing. I deleted my account.
It sucks that that happened, but what you have to remember is that the Book Bolt Designer is a piece of software, not an online storage site. Their saved designs section is more like the temporary cache you see when you open up Photoshop and you see the last 20 projects you worked on. Those projects don't stay in Photoshop either, they eventually get replaced by your more recent projects.
This is the reason an Adobe subscription offers 1GB of storage space, as well as the option to save your working files to your "own" computer. That being said, that's also why Adobe has a much more expensive subscription price. If Book Bolt was to save every users data indefinitely, they would have to add in a lot more servers and raise the price of their subscription to cover that cost.
It would be nice if Book Bolt gave you a way to save your working files to your own computer for later use, but that would probably require a lot more coding, which would end up raising the price of their service.
If you had saved your designs in Book Bolt and every few days opened those designs and modified them in some way and then re-saved them, they probably would have stayed around longer. Put if you hadn't touched them for 30 or more days, then they just become cache that's eventually erased.
Book Bolt is an inexpensive and minimal alternative to much pricier software subscriptions like Adobe. If you want all of the bells and whistles that come with professional software, you have to be willing to pay the higher price.
Oh my goodness. I am sincerely so upset to hear that happened to you. Hours and hours of painstaking focus go into creating everything we do. I feel for you. I can’t imagine why that happened. It sure makes you afraid to trust them in the future.
@@benicio1967 The old Book Bolt designer had a lot of issues with it. Fortunately, the new Book Bolt Studio now archives projects after about 4 weeks. You can still access them after they've been archived, it just takes a little while longer to open them (it's probably because they're on a different server).
@@CraigBabin thank you so much for this information. I was using Canva but canceled my subscription a couple of weeks ago. They told me my designs would be deleted in 30 days after cancelling my subscription but I did download my designs to my computer. I assume they’re perfectly safe now that they’re on my own pc. I just subscribed to your channel today. I’m glad I checked and saw I hadn’t subscribed before. This is a great channel and you have a great presence and communicate so well. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for your educational video. It is very helpful for creating a low-content puzzle book.
You're very welcome!
Just a quick easy question:
Even pages are on the left, and Odd pages are on the right, correct?
So if I want the words on the left, and the grid for the word search on the right, I would need to have 2&3, 4&5, 6&7 correct?
Correct. Page 1 is on the right hand side because the inside of the cover is on the left hand side. So each future page spread would be 2&3, 4&5, 6&7, etc.
How to automate this ? for example designing the layout that I want and upload my csv . is every time should I change the Name for example " Puzzle 1, Puzzle 2, puzzle 3...."
You could always hire someone to do it for you!
Hi Craig, your video super helpful. I am pulling my hair out here I have multiple times tried to submit my csv file and it says there are not enough words!! I have recounted manually a number of times as well as calculated on the spreadsheet, I have 600 word, I want 15 in each puzzle so that would be 40 pages plus 7 for the solutions .... I am baffled as to why it keeps saying there are not enough words. Any clue?? Appreciate your help!
Try adding in another 30 words or so. Not all puzzles can be designed to fit just any 15 words. Remember, you're dealing with a finite amount of letters in the puzzle, so some groupings of words just may not work together. You need to give the puzzle generator a few more options just in case it can't make certain words work properly together.
If you still can't get it to work, turn on the "use random words" option in the generator, that should solve your problem.
Thanks for the quick response I will give that a go. Crossing fingers.
I haven't even began my WordSearch project but i yet but I know the answer because I've read enough information overtime. No one seems to be remembering to " teach" the FACT that this tool views a "PAGE" as NOT a single side but rather a SIDE- BY-SIDE. If you imagine TEARING AWAY A PAGE are you tearing away one side of it? Think like that. No, you can't tear away part of it, you're tearing away SIDE BY SIDE content. Hence, if you have SIDE BY SIDE content of 15 words, that is the page containing 30! In summary if you have 600 words how many 30's can you have. The answer is 20. You can therefore only get 20 FULL.PAGES (aka side by side content) 600 words. You are telling the system you want 40 Pages so it is telling you that you are short on words bcuz for the system 40 PAGES is 1200 words. I really hope this helps
@@sharondennis1914 I think you're misreading his post Sharon. He wants to use "600 words" in his book with "40 puzzles" at "15 words" per puzzle. His math is correct: 15 X 40 = 600. Secondly, if you tear away a page (delete) from the book, you're not deleting a spread, you're deleting the front side of a page. Every page has two sides to it (a front and back side) ... which is why the page count of your book must be an even number in a multiple of 4.
So if your book has 84 pages in it and you delete 1 page side (from Book Bolt Studio) , that would leave your page count as an odd number 83. So you'd have to delete a second page side to make the count even. But, you would still have an issue, because 82 is not a multiple of 4. Printers lay out books in spreads, not pages. And each spread has 4 page sides to it. The left page of the spread has a front and back side and so does the right page of the spread. And this is why your books page count needs to be an even number that is a multiple of 4. But if you do happen to layout your book in an even number that is "not" a multiple of 4, like I do in this video (76 pages), KDP will just add 2 additional blank pages to your book when printing, to balance it out. So it's not a huge deal.
This is a point that I make very clear in many of my other self publishing videos. The reason that I don't explain this concept in every video, is because then my videos would just become a regurgitation of the same content. These videos aren't meant to be stand alone, they're part of my "Self Publishing 101" playlist, which I put a link to at the end of every video.
Page Count Example #1: ruclips.net/video/J5IvD_-3KBo/видео.html
Page Count Example #2: ruclips.net/video/iQYaYQ9MqJ0/видео.html
Thanks! Where did you find these Valentine's day's words from? Any Specific Website. I can find words but not specific to what I want.
No specific website. Just Google words pertaining to love, romance, relationships, heartbreak, etc.
Happy Sunday sir please how do I download BOOK-BOLT App I have tried but no success
It's not an app that you download, you simply sign up to the service and the software is on the website. There is a link below, be sure to use my promo code "craigbabin" to save 20%.
Book Bolt:
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Easy to follow and with a pleasant sounding voice 😊 That makes a change to some other RUclips demonstrators. I will definitely purchase the software on the basis of watching this video, and will click your affiliate link as my way of thanking you. Keep on the great work 🙌🏼
It’d be great if you could make a similar video for crossword puzzles ❤
Thank you I appreciate that. There will be a crossword video in the near future.
Just starting out in kdp and I would like to start with puzzle books. Would you reccomend any particular type of puzzle Book to start with eg. Crosswords, suduko, word search etc. And what software would you use. Thanks
If you want to start with puzzle books, Book Bolt has a great puzzle generator as well as desk top publishing software and research tools.
And you can save 20% by using my promo code and link that's in the description section of the video you just watched.
As for which type of puzzle book to start with, word search are good, and if you're a little patient, I'll have a brand new video dropping later this week that walks you step by step through the process of creating a Sudoku puzzle book.
Does Bookbolt studio allow you to add extra pages to a project while your creating the pages? Does it automatically adjust the cover spine also?
No, and it's for the very reason you just mentioned. Because it's creating the cover at the same time, it needs to make all of the calculations ahead of time. But it's the same with KDP; once you've uploaded your cover, you can't change the number of pages in your interior, without redoing your cover.
That's why you need to plan out your book ahead of time. If you're not sure how many pages your book is going to be, then create your interior first by itself (which you can do in Book Bolt). Then once you have that finalized, create your cover separately.
Criag, this was great....but a little too advanced and fast pace for your skill level. I did have 5 take aways that I can implement in the book I'm designing. Thank you!
You're quite welcome. Sorry about the pace!
Can you add a blank page? Say you thought you would need 57 pages but actually needed 60. Can you add the extra pages?
Yeah, just click the little blue add page button that sits under each page in the left hand column.
I'm hooked! You're my new tutor! Absolutely loved this... ❤ thank you so much!
I'm glad you find it helpful.
This is the second video I've watched that completely skims over how to group the solutions on the same page. I finished one activity book and just ended up doing one per page because for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to combine several pages onto one. Yes, I know how to shrink the size of the solution, but that doesn't tell me how to put more than one on the same page.
You right click on them and then copy and paste them on to the new page, I show you how to do that here in the video: 19:11
How old is this one? I don't even see the Layers Icon. I just started and What I am seeing on Book Bolt is so much different. Do you have any videos with the New Book Bolt Software? Thanks
Watch the entire video. The beginning of the video is showing the old Book Bolt Designer.
Great video & very informative! I'm having some issues with the number of pages left over from grouping the solutions puzzles together. If I create the number of pages I need & it doesn't load all of the solution puzzles. But if I create enough pages for all of the solution puzzles to load, after I condense them to fit 6 on a page, I have blank pages left over that I can't delete.
You can delete pages. Just right click on the page you want to delete in the left hand column and chose delete.
This video was very informative and straightforward! I love it...you just earned yourself another subscriber! : )
I'm glad you're coming along for the journey Kyishia.
Hello Craig, do you have any suggestions for generating random words for word puzzles?
Try this site here: wordcounter.net/random-word-generator
I'm trying to create word searches in Spanish, but it doesn't show me the letters with accents or Ñ, do you know if they can be placed?
No I don't sorry.
Hi, Craig! Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciate it and I bought your interior bundle, as well. I have one question: I started making a puzzle book but I have too many pages...can I delete unwanted pages? Or do I need to start all over again? Thanks!
If you look in the left hand column where your pages are laid out for you vertically, all you have to do is right click on the page you want to delete, and then choose "delete" form the popup menu.
@@CraigBabin Thank you so much!
This was a lot I think I need detail tutoring on what snap is,how to use the squares and make a border,how to make a inside cover page,etc,etc,etc😢
If you watch my other design videos, I cover most of what you're talking about. The best way to learn a software program is just to play with it.
Can an INDD file be opened in Book Bolt?
Thank you
I don't think so, you're going to have to export it out as a PDF.
Hi Craig... Can I ask you a quick question, please? You made 60 puzzles and you created 74 pages. 60 Pages for Puzzles, 10 for solutions (6 on each page), and 4 for your other stuff. You moved 6 puzzles to one page after they were on 6 pages. Please correct me if I am wrong. So, what did you do with these pages after moving from 6 to one page? Did you delete these extra pages? It's confusing. I am making 100 Puzzles and I created 203 pages. If I move 6 puzzles to 1 page then what do I do with the pages where there were solutions? Won't it mess up the Spine? Thanks
Yes, you delete the extra pages. The cover page will automatically update and readjust the width of the spine to compensate for the deleted pages.
@@CraigBabinThank you! Craig, you make things too complicated :) but I really liked this puzzle and I am trying to do what you taught us. I appreciate it a lot. Thanks
So, my laptop has stopped working. Can I do this on a phone until I can afford to get a new laptop?
I don't think so, but you can try.
I'm cackling at "but wait! there's more"
Yeah, that's left over from my years of working as a bartender, coming home at 2am and then watching infomercials until I passed out.
Any ideas why my cover layers keep changing order even after saving, when I leave the page to work on the puzzle pages? Also, what do do when it DOESN'T load the solutions pages but fills the entire thing with just puzzles? I figured out where I went wrong on both occasions. :P
Nothing should change after you save the page out. I've never heard of layers moving by themselves. You may want to submit a ticket to Book Bolt for that one.
As for only getting puzzles and no solutions, double check to make sure that you have the solution option turned on in the generator, and make sure you have enough blank pages in your book, for the number of puzzles, as well as the number of solutions you want to create. (ie 50 puzzles + 50 solutions = 100 blank pages needed).
@@CraigBabin In order for it to not move around, I finally had to group them all, lock it then save and go to my next page. At least it works. :)
In a book with 60 puzzles and 16 words per puzzle would you recommend using 960 unique words or reusing words in puzzles? Thanks for the video.
I would try to use as many unique words as possible. Too much repetition may make customers feel like they've been cheated, which equals bad reviews.
@@CraigBabin Thank you
What a great video, thank you for all your time and effort.
My pleasure!
So, your Labels are made in Illustrator and not in Photoshop. Correct? I am interested in these Labels but I don't have Illustrator so I won't be able to modify them. Do you have them in Photoshop in PSD Files? Thanks
Each label comes individually as a PNG file. So you can use them in any software. You just won't be able to modify the colors of them. I only have the working file in an AI format, because I wanted them to be vector based.
@@CraigBabin Thanks!
I was watching this again and my question is you made this on one page and you can spend a lot of time on one page but what about if you have 40 to 60 puzzles then we will have to spend so much time on each and every puzzle? Put Borders on every Puzzle and then do other modifications with the words and so on. That will make me crazy :)
Let me guess, you thought that graphic designers and artists just pushed a button and everything magically appeared?! lol. Making a living as a creative person is hard work. But it's a small price to pay for a business that deposits passive income into your bank account every month.
You can create your first puzzle, and then after hiding the letters and clue words, just clone the page onto all of your other puzzle pages. Then all you have to do is copy and paste the puzzle letters and clue words from all of your generated puzzle pages.
@@CraigBabinThank You! You Know looks like God didn't put that creative part in me. :) You should make such complicated videos for those who don't have a creative brain. I have finally progressed. Thank You.
can I control the numbers of columns? Can I put less? Tks
If you're referring to the number of columns in the puzzle itself ... no. But if you're referring to the columns of words, then yes.
Watch this video here to see how to do it: ruclips.net/video/5oVISKReCBk/видео.html
signed up with Bookbolt, stuck on downloading interior and cover...? With zip file...? Can't move forward. Do you have an instructional video on this? Or, can I pay you for an hour or two to coach me on this? Thanks. Lew
The bundle comes packed in an RAR zip file, if you can't open it, you can download FREE RAR extraction software here: www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0
why bother sending that?@@CraigBabin
@@lewstone8394 You said you were having a problem downloading the project in the ZIP file. That is how you open the zip file. If that's not what you meant, you need to explain your problem better.
How to enlarge the letters and font size to fit the books for the elderly
Select your text, go to the text tool bar above your art board and click on the text size icon, it looks like this "aA". Or you can adjust the size when you are generating puzzles. You'll be given the option to do so in the "options" pop up menu that appears after you choose which pages you want your puzzles on.
Watch here: 9:33
Thanks for this in depth tutorial! Quick question is what you did here only available in the Pro Version?
Yeah, the puzzle generator only comes with the pro version.
@@CraigBabin Thought that might be the case. Thank you!!!
I love your cover, beautiful.
Thanks Carol.
Hi Craig. I have a bit of a problem. I am trying to set up my alphabet soup. I get a board with 16 columns x 16 rows, is there any way to change that configuration?
Thanks in advance for your help. I learn a lot from your videos.
The configuration should default at 17 X 17 and I don't think there's a way to change that. You can change the dimensions of the puzzle letter board by adding in wider margins in the margin setting at the top of the puzzle generator menu, but that's pretty much it.
You're stuck with 17 X 17, unless you change the length of your words. Really long words will probably result in more columns and rows.
Thank you very much for your help, Craig. I wasted a lot of time looking for where I could change that setting.
Thank you,
Sofia Wang
@@unexpertodegoogleteayuda1465 I'm glad I could help Sofia.
Please do the Arabic translation feature
If you're referring to Arabic subtitles, that's a feature that you have to turn on in the video player menu. Just click on the "CC" in the bottom menu to turn on Closed Caption. Then click on the little "gear" icon (settings), choose "subtitles" from the drop down menu and then "auto translate". Then just pick Arabic from the options.
you're awesome
Is it only a desktop or can I use it by phone or tablet as well?
I've only used it on a desktop so I can't say for sure. You may be able to use it on a tablet.
THANK YOU!! Your video answered a pressing critical question for me: how to move around in the artboard!! Nowhere in the tutorials or FAQs does it say how to move around in the artboard. I tried using the scrollwheel, and pairing that with the Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Windows key... did not think to use the SPACEBAR! THANKS A MILLION!
Hahaha, trust me, I tried all of those combinations as well the first few times I used the software. I think anyone who has ever worked in any type of professional photo editing software, is going to stumble on that.
Glad I could help!
Great video, but I have a question. When you create the book, you check the box to add the solutions, right? So, 16 puzzles = 16 solution pages, or a total of 32 pages. If you have 16 puzzles, you will need 16 solutions. So, you could put 4 solutions on 4 pages dedicated to the solutions. I am doing a book with 24 puzzles in it. That would mean that I would need 6 pages dedicated to solutions, if I put 4 solutions on each page. Or 4 pages if I put 6 solutions on each page. So, I planned that way when I created my project. 24 puzzles plus 6 pages for solutions would equal 30 pages. But when I tried that, I only got 6 puzzle solution pages. How do I see all the solutions so I can copy them onto the solutions pages? Hope I am not being too confusing here, but I am confused. LOL Hey, I will take help from anybody.
Dale!!!! You're giving me flashbacks to grade 11 algebra and those two damn men on different trains! lol
If you're going to have 24 puzzles, you need to create your book with 48 pages (24 puzzles and 24 solutions). Then after you've combined your solutions (by copying and pasting them) onto 6 pages (4 to a page), you delete the remaining 16 blank pages from your book. The spine on your books' cover will automatically be adjusted to account for the deleted pages.
Well, when you put it like that! LOL. I guess I did take the long way around the barn, but I was trying to make sure you got the picture. Anyway, I guess you answered my question. So, if I decide to consolidate the solutions, say 4 to a page, I just go back and delete the excess pages I originally created, and then all is well in Book Bolt land! Thanks for your speedy reply.
Here is another question. I am trying to create a multi-puzzle type book. I thought I would do 5 different types of puzzles with 5 puzzles each. To keep it simple, I will just figure that means I will need to create a book with 50 pages, a total of 25 puzzles and 25 puzzle solution pages. Correct? The first 5 puzzles are to be word search puzzles with 20 words per puzzle. I created my word list using ChatGPT. I got 20 words on 5 different subjects, so, a total of 100 words. I copy and pasted them into my spreadsheet separated by one row between each group of words.
Next, I went to Book Bolt and set up my project. I wanted to create the interior only as I will create my cover in Canva. I set my book as a 6"x 9" paperback and used "Bleed". Next, I followed your video and set my margins to 0.25 and selected the first 5 pages in the template creator. I selected that I wanted each puzzle to have a max of 20 words. So, here's the problem. When I uploaded my csv file into Book Bolt, I expected each puzzle to have 20 words, but instead, they came out with a different number of words to search in them. The first had 20 words, but the next one had only 7 words, and on and on. Each puzzle with a different number of words. Where did I go wrong here? I mean, I have tried to do 16 words max per puzzle, 15 words max per puzzle, 10 words, each time the puzzles loaded with an uneven number of words. Can you help me figure this out? I have done several puzzle books, word search books, and never had this problem. I would do 25 puzzles with 25 words each. I would always get just that followed by 25 solution pages. But this has me stumped. Any suggestions you may have will be appreciated. Thanks
@@dalehan123 I honestly have no idea why it would do that. The only thing that I can think of is that some of your words are over 20 characters in length, and since they're not usable, the generator is dividing up the ones that are between each puzzle. Try doing one puzzle at a time. Or try removing the blank space between your word sets in your CSV file. If that doesn't work, submit a help ticket to Book Bolt.
@@CraigBabin Ok, thanks again Craig. Yes, some words are not single words. I have used names of places like the name golf course, etc. I wasn't aware that was a problem in Excel. Like I said, I created the word list using ChatGPT, and it renders a list that is un-editable. After I pasted them into Excel, I tried to edit them, but, no go! Excel will accept the list, but there is no way to edit the cells. I can't even highlight the part that I would like to erase. Anyway, I thank your again for your prompt reply.
Craig, this tutorial is EXACTLY what I have scouring the YT world for!! Thank You Good Sir!!! I have a question - I want to make my covers using Affinity. Is it possible to import already-made cover files into Book Bolt?? Thanks!
As long as they're in a JPEG or PNG format, yes. I do that in this video here: ruclips.net/video/iQYaYQ9MqJ0/видео.html
At your Video time 3:08, I could not get how did you make this Pattern. You were so Fast.
I wasn't actually showing you how to do it at that point, I was just showing you that it was still possible to do in the new studio.
To create a pattern with an image, just select the image on your art board, then go over to the left hand tool bar and choose the make pattern icon (it's the one that looks like a brick wall). When the popup menu opens asking you if you want to create a pattern the selected object, just click okay. As you scale the image up, more of the pattern will appear.
@@CraigBabin Thank You!
Hi Craig. I am creating my book in batches of 10 puzzles. I have 61 pages loaded for the puzzles and solutions. How do I add the next batch of puzzles to the current book?
The same way you added the first batch. Select the page you want the puzzles to start on and click the "page templates" icon in the tool bar. Then just select the puzzle template you want to use and go through the same steps you did for the first batch.
20% discount in bookbolt is only for the first month? Or it is for every month?
The 20% discount continues as long as you renew. So if you renew yearly or monthly, you'll get the same 20% discount.
@@CraigBabin I used your code in bookbolt. Thank you
Thank you so much for such a great tutorial on word search. However, Is it possible to make a crossword puzzle book in bookbolt? if so, would you kindly make a video on it please?
It is and I will some day soon.
Thanks a lot for all your videos, I'm learning a lot from you. I just have one question though about the interior making process. I made the interior of a wide lined journal and then it brought me to an options window where you could set the margins (not the page ones obviously), the space between line and stroke thickness...I got all that but then at the bottom there is something called the "Bleed Mode" where it gives me a choice between "Work Area (consider KDP margins)" and "Paper"...I don't get this part, which bleed are they talking about exactly? since I know I already set the format to "no bleed" and I doubt they are reffering to that to begin with. It would be super helpful if you could guide me through this part in case you have some knowledge about it. Thank you so much again!
If you choose "Work Area", your lines will stop at the green KDP margins. If you choose "Paper", then you're lines will bleed right off of the edge of the page.
@@CraigBabin but I already set the template to no bleed. So if I select "paper" will the setting then change to bleed or am I understanding it wrong?
If you don't want bleed then just choose "Work Area".
@@CraigBabin ok thank you so much!
You skipped the margin set out? I contacted the BB help desk, how do I change the margins, they never said yes or no, so if you don't get it right you have to start again.
The KDP margins (the green dotted lines) are fixed and can't be changed. They are set up to KDP's specifications. You have to keep your content inside of those lines. This is why I said bring your content in without margins, that way you can just scale it to fit the KDP margins.
Thx for the reply, but; At 6:56 you have a wider gutter margin? where do you set that/them? I need to get this margin thing sorted before I can move on. 😉
May be it's because I'm on the 3 day trial and you are on the pro version?
Who's ever heard of a 3 day trial? it's not even the pro version, at least with something like Photoshop you get a month, full version.
@@stevesculptor1 The gutter, top, bottom and outside margins are all preset in the Book Bolt studio. They're set up to KDP's recommendations, and they can't be changed. But when you add content using the "page template" icon in the left menu, you'll be given the option to add additional space (margins) around your content. The margins that you're adding there are in addition to the KDP margins, unless you set the bleed mode to "paper" instead of "work area" in the options menu of the page template. You can only set the additional margins on content that is being uploaded from the "page template" section. Anything that you're importing from outside of Book Bolt, has to be lined up on the page itself using the preset margins provided.
Your best option is to just use the preset margins (the little green dotted lines) that come from KDP and push your page content right up to those lines. Unless you want a full bleed, then just drag your content right off the edge of the page.
Thank you so much for this excellent video! Have an additional question. Do you know if you can add pages to the puzzle book created outside of Book Bolt, or if it is possible to export this book bolt file in to another publishing software to add additional pages?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Book Bolt only exports projects in PDF format and that it's using it's own native file format when the project is being worked on.
But you can bring pages from an outside book, into Book Bolt as either PDF's or PNG files, and then copy and paste them on to blank pages inside of the Book Bolt Studio. But ultimately, you have to create the entire book inside of the studio.
Quick Question for you, please? Do we have any option to remove the background of an image on the Book bolt? If we bring an image from outside to the book bolt then changing color becomes a little difficult. Sometimes it is difficult to find a Png image. Thanks
No, you can't remove a background in Book Bolt. But you can always remove it in Photoshop or Photopea.com , before you bring it into Book Bolt. Just make sure to export it out as a PNG.
@@CraigBabinWow! That is sad that Book Bolt is missing such a major necessity. That is what I am doing. I am removing BG in Photoshop and then bringing it to Book Bolt. How can they lack such a big functionality? Thanks
@@shoppersdream You can't compare Book Bolt to Photoshop, it's not meant to be a replacement for it. It's a book publishing software. It's meant to be a hybrid of Photoshop and InDesign. Can Photoshop generate puzzles? No! Does InDesign provide you with market research for your competition? No! Can you do graphic design in InDesign? No! Can you lay out a book in Photoshop? No!
And a subscription to both of those software apps costs way more than a subscription to Book Bolt! Book Bolt is designed purely for book publishing, and if you look at all of the features it gives you, you'll find that there is nothing else on the market that even comes close to it for that price!
I wish my big screen TV doubled as a toaster oven, so that I wouldn't have to get off of the couch to make something to eat ... but you can't have everything.
@@CraigBabinThey Used to have the Remove Background Feature but they removed it in Studio. Thanks
Hi I finally finish and was able to upload to CSV. However, after the last page, the soluton page does not come up after the last page. Does it matter whether you use a mac laptop? I even created a ticket twice and no avail.
When you upload the CSV, there must be enough blank pages in your book so that each solution can be placed on it's own page. Did you account for that? You can place the solutions 6 to a page after they are created and then just delete the extra blank pages. So if you are creating 50 puzzles, you need to make sure that you have at least 100 blank pages.
Also, on the puzzle generator page, make sure you have checked the box to add the solutions.
What a great video. You are a great teacher. It was so interesting to see how to create a puzzle book.
Thank you for the kind words Sandee. I'm glad you found it interesting.
Great video, really informative. I'd be interested to know what information you included on the copyright page. Do you have to credit Book Bold in any way?
No you don't have to credit Book Bolt, they're just the software you used to layout your book. If you want to see what one of my copyright pages look like, just use the "Look Inside" feature to see the first few pages of one of my books. You can find one here: amzn.to/3wpYCfS
Thanks for this detailed video. I am getting an error msg 'not enough words' when I try to load my csv file. How can I fix it? When we input the Max words per page as 10, can we still have some pages with less than 10 words or does it have to be exactly 10 ?
It's best to have more words in your CSV file than you need in your book. Not all words will work together in all puzzles, so the generator may not be able to deliver what you're asking for. To answer your second question, if you generate the puzzles separately, you can have whatever number of words you want in each puzzle. But if you generate them all at once, then they will all have the same amount of words in them.
@@CraigBabin I am trying to do a knowledge based wordsearch on a subject matter. So answers are precise and cannot add extra words. I am trying to load a few pages at a time separately and still getting the error message.
@@truthseeker9416 The only reason that you should be getting that error message, is if you stipulated that you wanted 10 words to a puzzle and for whatever reason, the generator couldn't make those 10 words fit in the same puzzle. Since it is unable to deliver what you're asking of it, it gives you an error. The only thing I would suggest is try requesting fewer words in each puzzle. If that doesn't work, submit a help ticket with Book Bolt to see if they can figure it out.
@@CraigBabin thank you. I will try reducing the number to see if that works.
How do I increase the search boxes?
What search boxes?
Thanks for your outstanding effort. After choosing the punches that I will use in the book, I want to change all letters from lowercase letters to uppercase letters, but I am afraid of changing the meanings of words. Can you help because English is not the mother tongue?
Changing letters from lowercase to uppercase doesn't change the meaning in English. Just select all of your letters and use the "aA" tool in the text menu to change them to uppercase.
Update: I believe you addressed my concern in your video and BTW, that was fabulous!🤗
I can never get my template to fill the center of the page like yours. It's always off to the side and when I enlarge it the template becomes too big for the screen and still off to the side. Definitely hinders my design time when trying to enlarge it so I can see the details better. During a Book Bolt Live session someone else was experiencing the same issue. I tried the suggestion that was given to her but it did not help. 😕
If I understand you correctly, you're talking about the art board itself. Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out, and hold down either the scroll wheel or the left mouse button, as well as the space bar on your keyboard, to reposition the art board to where you want it.
@@CraigBabin You are correct and thank you. I will definitely try that.
hi thanks for the tutorial. how are you able to move the clues individually and arrange them in order with equal spacing and well lined up. i was not able to do this. i tried using the grid in the book bolt studio but was unable to achieve this. the words were not well arranged and the spacings were off.
Just place your cursor after the first clue and then hit your space bar a few times. Then repeat on the second clue, third clue and so on. You can also select a number of the words and then cut and paste them on to their own layer and then just line them up underneath one another. If you have 16 words, do this 4 times and you'll be left with 4 columns that are left justified.
Ok thanks!@@CraigBabin
i published my 1st word search book on KDP,thanks for your guidance!
Hi Craig! Thanks so much for your videos. I have a question about saving project files and pages in BB: In a previous video, you said that we had to render/export our projects within a few days because BB erases files in its cache (or wherever). Is that still the case? The reason I ask is that I have a feeling that completing my first few books will take more than a few days. I'd like to be able to resume work on a project that I started more than a week or two in the past. Why would BB put such stressful time limits on creators anyway? (unless I misunderstood your previous video). I'm hoping that the new BB would do away with this time constraint. Thank you.
No, that's no longer the case. If your project is untouched for more than 30 days, Book Bolt archives it. All that does is removes it from the cache and saves it to a back up server. You can still access it when you open the BB Studio, it's just going to take a few seconds longer to open. Your projects will be saved for as long as you have a subscription.
@@CraigBabin Whew! That's good to hear. Thank you so much.
I want to buy 6 months pro deal. But it is not working.
What's not working? Are you clicking on the link I provided? Do you see the blue button saying "Get the Black Friday Deal"? After you click on that, you just have to sign up. On the second page of the sign up you'll be asked for a promo code. Just use "craigbabin".
Sign up: affiliate.bookbolt.io/idevaffiliate.php?id=957&url=514
Thanks for your response. It's fixed now i contacted one of your helping assistants.
Super useful!! You do a great job of explaining how to really get the most out of this software. Thanks a million!!
You're very welcome Mike!
thank uu, i have a question should we put all the words in USPTO TO check if there is a trademark orr it not dangerous because it is small and not in the title?
No, just try an stay away from themes that are based on other peoples intellectual property ... like a Disney Word Search book.
@@CraigBabin THANks for your response, i didn't mean the niche but the words search inside the book ?
@@sofia-w1u4v If you're just using normal words, you'll be fine. You just can't use trademarked words in your books title, or in your book, if you're using them in a derogatory or demeaning way toward the company you're mentioning. And since you're book is only a word search book, then you're not doing that. There's no need to search out all of the words in USTPO.
@@CraigBabin thank u so much
How do you zoom into one section? I am trying to work on the heading of a page but I can't seem to get there. When I zoom in, it just zooms into one part of the page. There are no scroll bars to navigate around the page.
Hold down your "space bar" and either your "scroll wheel" or "left mouse button" at the same time. You'll be able to move the art board around.
This was really nice but very fast. I will have to watch it many times to totally understand all your steps. If you will be a little slow then maybe Newbies will be able to get some benefits. Thanks
I will try my best.
@@CraigBabinThank You! Please make more videos with Book Bolt Studio. I just started in Feb only and I want to learn how to make Puzzle Books. Do you have courses on Udemy on Book Bolt Studio with KDP? Thanks
@@shoppersdream Here are some other videos you may be interested in:
How to create Dot to Dot Books in Book Bolt: ruclips.net/video/iQYaYQ9MqJ0/видео.html
How to Make $1000 per month in Book Bolt: ruclips.net/video/eF-Q77UQFL8/видео.html
(This one uses the old software, but the research tools and design tips are still useful).
How to Create Coloring Books (Part 1): ruclips.net/video/ax7nVKQjBTk/видео.html
How to Create Coloring Books (Part 2): ruclips.net/video/a_TCT2gKpCQ/видео.html
(These two deal with Creative Fabrica, but the design tips can be used in Book Bolt).
There will be more in the future.
CraigBabin Thank You! I will watch them.
This is an awesome tutorial! You answered questions I didn't even know I had! I appreciate how you share your expertise.
That's very nice of you to say, I'm glad you liked the video.
Hello! I purchased your bundle, but I'm unable to open the file! What do I need to do?
The RAR file is a zip file that the bundle comes packed in, if you can't open it, you can download free RAR extraction software here: bit.ly/3DzYugp
All of the documents are PDF format in the bundle. If your computer is trying to open them with notepad, it's because you don't have the Adobe Acrobat software on your computer. You can download it for free here: get.adobe.com/reader/
thank you so much for this video.I was trying to figure out whether to purchase book bolt as an investment for the long haul.I'm for sure buying it now
I'm glad I could help Brandy.
The answer page format of the Bookbolt puzzle is not good at all! Needs a lot of improvement to be sellable.
I wouldn't go as far as to say not sellable, in simple puzzles like these, people very rarely need the solutions. Just giving them an indication of where the hidden words are in the puzzle, for most people would be enough.
But I agree, the solution pages would be much better if the words were circled as one entire word as opposed to as individual letters.
I've made a comment to the development team at Book Bolt about this, hopefully they'll fix this soon.
Question: Do you know if RGB/CMYK rendering (32:44) works the same in Canva? Thanks for great videos!
If I was using Canva, I'd probably just render out as RGB as well. The only time rendering out in CMYK is advantageous to you, is when you have access to Pantone swatches. I've never used Canva before, but I highly doubt that you have access to Pantone swatches.
KDP printers can get pretty good results with RGB, so unless you're using a software program like Adobe, I'd just stick to RGB.
Awesome. Thank you!
Hi, do you know if we're still able to download our files from book bolt in svg format? The functionality seems to have disappeared for me!
No, you can only download in PDF format now. The SVG has been removed Marisa.
@@CraigBabin thank you for your prompt reply. Shame they've removed that feature though 🤔
and thank you for your awesome videos (think I may have said it before, but the information you share on your channel is really appreciated!)
@@marihay You're quite welcome Marisa.
@@marihay I think they removed it because they're trying to give you all of the functionality to design your books inside of the studio, rather than take images outside and design them in other software.
Thanks for the tutorial I'll get started on my puzzle books today!
Best of luck!
Thanks, Craig! this is very helpful. God Bless you 🙂
You're welcome.
This was wonderful! I am still thinking about Bookbolt..? 🤔🙂 Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. It makes it a more viable decision. 🙌🏼☕🤓💯🙏🏼👏🏼
Here's a little piece of advice that may help you make your decision. There's a good chance that Book Bolt will have a Black Friday special this November. Book Bolt notifies me ahead of time to let me know if they do. I'll post in my community section to let my subscribers know the sale is coming.
So if you're subscribed to my channel and you have the bell notification turned on for all notifications, you'll get the notification that I've posted something in my community section. Then, if you use my affiliate link in the description section of this video, you'll save 20%. And if the sale is the same as last year, you'll also get an additional 40% off. Which will give you 60% off of a 1 year subscription.
That's how it worked last year anyway.
@@CraigBabin If Book Bolt sale repeats for this year then I will definitely sign up through your affiliate link. Now to look at some more of your videos. Thank you for the heads up. Have a great weekend. ☕🙌🏼💯😁
Best video on this subject you solved my problems straight away
I'm glad I could help.
Great tutorial 👌 thank you
I'm glad you liked it.
Thanks so much for this! Was able to successfully follow along with your video to create my 1st word search. The only issue that came up is right clicking to edit the content. Nothing happens when I right click. Any other way you know of to access the feature to edit the content?
1. Make sure that the layer you want to edit is unlocked. 2. Make sure that you have selected the content you want to edit (in other words, there is a green bounding box around it). 3. Make sure you're right clicking "inside" of the green bounding box.
If none of that works, submit a help ticket to Book Bolt, you have a glitch.
@@CraigBabin received & very much appreciated💯
Great video but you wasted my time going back to the old designer all the time
I just want to know about the new book bolt studio
Fair enough. The only reason I included that was because I had seen other videos that were reviewing the new studio that were saying not much had changed. I just wanted to make sure that anyone who had used Book Bolt in the past and didn't like it because of those reasons, new that it had improved quite a bit.
That's also why I put in the chapters, so that you can skip parts you don't want to watch.
I'll be sure to cut out the flash backs in the future.
Wow great information super.... Your one of the best I have seen on this topic
That's very kind of you to say!
Thanks Craig!
You're welcome.
I’m new to kdp and this was great. My question is when uploading to kdp how do you upload the interior and cover separate since in bookbolt it is saved together in 1 when doing the cover and interior together.
The project is saved out of Book Bolt in one ZIP folder, but once you get inside the folder, both the cover and the interior are two separate PDF files.
Its amazing
It has improved quite a bit.
Craig, FYI, there might be a bug with the puzzle generator. When I am attempting to use the Word Search generator, even though my CSV file is using all capital letters, the word list clues are all being converted to lower case. I have sent a ticket over to them, and am awaiting for their reply, but if you have any suggestions, or can try this out form your end I would like to hear about it also.
Once you've loaded your puzzle on to your page, select it, right lick on it and choose edit contents. Then group select all of the words in lower case, then go to up to the text tool menu, above your art board and use the "Capitalize Letters" tool to change all of the letters to upper case. It's the icon with the small "a" that has an arrow pointing to a capital "A".
@@CraigBabin You are a genius Craig! Thank you so much, it worked like a charm.
Thanks for the video. I tried to make a book with word search puzzles in Bookbolt. It turned out that depending on the length of the words this service decides the size of the grid itself. I set it up to have 20 words in each puzzle. As a result, Bookbolt generated a different number of rows and columns in each puzzle! I got so that out of 50 pages, part of it was 15*15, another part 16*16 and even 1 puzzle came out 20*20! (I contacted Bookbolt technical support and they confirmed that I cannot set the grid size on my end, the program does it automatically.) How do the buyers of the book feel about that? How do you overcome such difficulties? Thank you
Most word search puzzle books should have a consistent level of difficulty throughout. Try to make sure that there are an even number of long words and shorter words in each puzzle. If you do that, your puzzle grids should stay pretty consistent as well.
If they do vary by one or two rows or columns, I really don't think anyone will notice. Just as long as the theme and the level of difficulty, remain the same throughout.
@@CraigBabin Thanks for your comment! I didn't think people were interested in solving words of the same length. I thought it was the other way around - they wanted to do the short ones, and to wrestle with the long ones.)
@@Laikina_Art They don't all have to be long, but if your puzzles are going to have 20 words in them, make sure each puzzle has 10 long words, 5 medium words and 5 short words. By keeping that format throughout, your column and row numbers should stay consistent.
This video is golden! Thank you. I was struggling with using the new Book Bolt Studio features. But you really clarified a lot of details which resolved my confusion problems. Thank you!
I'm glad I could help.
Can you add pages numbers
You can do it manually just by adding a number to the bottom of each page. As for adding pages, you can do that as well. In the left hand menu there is a blue button under each individual page that allows you to add additional pages.
@@CraigBabin thank you
hi
Hello.
I think the main issues I am having is lining up the words after they are generated. For example, if I am asking for 20 words each, instead of it neatly stacking four columns, it is providing three columns, the first two being seven words, and the last column laying out six words. It's sort of frustrating, but I might be too anal to let it go also. The two books I purchased has them neatly lined up the way I want it, so not sure if there is an easy way of doing this
There is an easier way. Just use the grid generator with 4 or 5 vertical rows (which ever you prefer). Make sure your snap tool is turned on at the bottom of the page. Then just type out each word individually and then snap them up against each respective vertical line on your grid ... until you have 4 or 5 columns of words. The first letter of every word should be perfectly left justified in each column.
If you're not sure how to use the grid generator, watch my video on how to create connect the dot books in Book Bolt. I go over using the grid in that video.
@@CraigBabin OK, thank you, I will try this out!
awesome... but book bolt is not providing diagonal words in word search, I am disappointed.. but you are using diagonal example in cover.. this could bring bad reviews, am I right ?
I spoke with the Bolt Bolt development team and one of the things they're working on right now is diagonal and reverse words, as well as a better solution page. So I included it in the video, because I wanted the video to remain current once the change is released.
They're updating pretty fast, so it shouldn't be long now. I put it in the video as a way to put pressure on them to get it done. lol
Any update about this problem ?
@@abdelwahed9501 Not yet. As soon as they let me know, I'll pass it along to all of you.
Book Bolt is now providing the option for both diagonal and reverse words that overlap. They've also changed their solution pages as well.
Good and informative video. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome! Very helpful...thanks!
You're welcome!