Page Sizes for Word for Publishing Books

[Tundra]

I'm sure I saw one around before, possibly via NaNoWriMo, but it was a template. You'd download a word document and the pages would be the size that you'd need for a novel.

I think it might help me write, I like seeing how many pages I'm getting through.

Alternatively, how should I change the Word pages so that it's approximately the same sizes as a page in a book?

[Locke]

I believe the paper size you're looking for is A4.

However, a publisher's page count isn't based on that at all. It's manuscript pages. A double-spaced manuscript page written in the Courier font (pretty universally accepted) on standard 8.5 x 11 (letter) paper contains approximately 250 words. So, if you're really curious and don't care to go reformatting your whole manuscript, just divide your word count by 250, slap off the remainder and add 1.

[Tundra]

No, I'm not looking for A4. Novel sized pages are not A4. I'm looking for a way to force the pages on my word document to be approximately the same size and a similar number of words, as in a novel. The 250 words thing helps, but I'd still like to be able to force my Word Document to do it so that I can see it as I type. Maybe there's some really stupidly simple solution.

[Locke]

A little bit of prodding at the internet reveals that a common book leaf size is 9 x 6in, or 22.8 x 15.25mm, which is slightly larger than letter (8.5 x 11in) folded in half.

This (http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/wordprocessingsoftware/l/blPapersize.htm) will help you go about setting up a custom paper size in Word.

[Tundra]

Thanks, I'll check it out! :)

Is that for printing size (not what I'm after) or to do with fiddling around with margins and so forth?

[Locke]

That's actually creating your own custom page size in Word.

[Tundra]

Thanks! :D I've got it now.