How to build your KDP book outline and edit individual puzzles

Step by step

1. 1Click Build outline — in a few seconds the centre shows your real, numbered printed pages.
2. 2Flip through the spreads with the arrows.
3. 3Free users see and can edit the first 6 puzzles; the Publisher plan shows the whole book.
4. 4Click any row in the Outline to open that puzzle beside its page.
5. 5Give it a Page title and change Difficulty for this puzzle — only that page changes.
6. 6Edit the words under Content on this page, then click Apply to this page.
7. 7Click Lock to keep this exact page through every rebuild.
8. 8After changing a section, Rebuild outline keeps your locks and edits; Reroll unlocked gives fresh puzzles to everything else.

Transcript

Episode seven: building the outline, and editing any puzzle in it. Click Build outline. In a few seconds, every puzzle is made and laid out. These are your real printed pages, at six by nine. Flip through with the arrows. A free account gets the first six puzzles. Real pages to build, flip and edit. With the Publisher plan, the preview shows the whole book. The outline lists all sixty puzzles, in order. Click any row, and that puzzle opens beside its page. Give it a Page title. It prints at the top, instead of Puzzle four. Set its difficulty, too. Only this page changes. Swap any word in its list. Heron becomes puffin. Click Apply to this page, and the grid is rebuilt with the new word. Reroll gives just this page a fresh grid. But this one's a keeper. Lock it, and it survives a rebuild, unless you change its own section. Now change a section. Say, make the sudoku hard. The outline's out of date, so click Rebuild outline. Your locks and edits are kept. Only the section you changed is rebuilt. Reroll unlocked gives everything else fresh grids. And Backyard Birds stays put. Your title, your words, locked in. Next up, episode eight: proofing your book, then downloading it.

Chapter by chapter

0:04 Build the outline

Build outline turns your settings into real, numbered printed pages; flip through the spreads.

0:15 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.

0:40 Edit the words on a page

Change the words under Content on this page and click Apply to this page.

0:49 Lock the keepers

Lock keeps this exact page through every rebuild; Reroll gives just this page a new grid.

0:56 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, in beta) need a KDP Publisher plan; building, previewing and the first 10 pages plus cover are free. Everything else shown is free. See the plans.