KDP Book Builder course · Episode 7 of 10
How to build your KDP book outline and edit individual puzzles
Episode 7: build the outline to see your real printed pages, flip through spreads, open any puzzle to retitle it, change its difficulty or words, and lock it so rebuilds keep it.
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Step by step
- 1Click Build outline — in a few seconds the centre shows your real, numbered printed pages.
- 2Flip through the spreads with the arrows.
- 3Free users see and can edit the first 6 puzzles; the Publisher plan shows the whole book.
- 4Click any row in the Outline to open that puzzle beside its page.
- 5Give it a Page title and change Difficulty for this puzzle — only that page changes.
- 6Edit the words under Content on this page, then click Apply to this page.
- 7Click Lock to keep this exact page through every rebuild.
- 8After changing a section, Rebuild outline keeps your locks and edits; Reroll unlocked gives fresh puzzles to everything else.
Transcript, chapter by chapter
- 0:04 Build the outline
- Build outline turns your settings into real, numbered printed pages; flip through the spreads.
- 0:14 Free preview vs the whole book
- Free users build, flip and edit the first 6 puzzles; the Publisher plan shows the whole book.
- 0:28 Open any puzzle
- Click an outline row to open that puzzle beside its page: give it a page title or change its difficulty.
- 0:39 Edit the words on a page
- Change the words under Content on this page and click Apply to this page.
- 0:48 Lock the keepers
- Lock keeps this exact page through every rebuild; Reroll gives just this page a new grid.
- 0:55 Rebuild and reroll, locks kept
- After changing a section, Rebuild outline keeps your locks and edits, and Reroll unlocked refreshes everything else.
Parts marked Publisher (the full interior PDF, the cover print files and the AI tools) need a KDP Publisher plan; building, previewing and the first 10 pages plus cover are free. Everything else shown is free. See the plans.