Section Options Menu

Every section in your book has an Options menu. It lets you change one section on its own, without affecting any other part of your book.

Find the Options button at the top right of any section in the editor.
Click it to open the menu.

When a section has changes of its own, the Options button turns blue, and the changed items in the menu show a small blue dot. A green dot next to a heading style means that style is using a saved style of its own. Together they are your cue that the section is set up differently from the rest of the book.

The menu groups its choices into a few clear areas, described below. Some items only appear for certain kinds of section. A title page, for example, does not offer a heading image.

Section Actions

The structural settings: what the section is, and how it prints.

Customize Section Settings

Opens this section’s style settings, where you can adjust formatting that applies to this section alone, such as indentation, drop caps, and spacing, plus which heading parts show.

When to use: a section needs different formatting from the rest of the book. A prologue, for instance, might be indented differently from your main chapters.

Customize Print Settings

Changes the print settings for this section only, such as its headers, footers, and page layout. See Per-Section Print Settings for what each option does.

When to use: one section has special print needs, like its own headers or footers.

Convert Section Type

Changes what kind of section this is: a numbered or unnumbered chapter, a piece of front matter (title page, copyright, dedication, table of contents, and more), back matter (epilogue, acknowledgments, appendix, and more), or a full page image.

When to use: you want to turn a plain section into something specific, like a dedication page or a full page image. Learn more in Section Types.

Edit Section’s Styles

The visual settings: the section’s heading, its heading styles, and its background.

Add a Heading Image

Adds a decorative image at the top of this section, or replaces the heading image you set for all chapters. You can also remove the heading image from just this one section.

Section Heading Styles

Styles the section’s heading on its own. It opens a short menu with three choices:

Heading Title. The styling of the section’s main title.
Heading Subtitle. The styling of the subtitle below it.
Heading Spacing. The space around the heading.

Each one can use a saved style (called a preset), so a single section can look different without changing your book-wide styles.

Set Section’s Background

Controls what sits behind this section’s text. It opens a menu whose choices depend on the section. You may see:

Heading Background Image. Places an image behind the section’s heading area.
Print Page Colors. Sets the page background color (and related colors) for this section in your print-ready PDF. See Print Page Colors.
Print Background Images. Places a full background image on this section’s pages in print. See Background Images, and Split-Page Background Images for two-image spreads.

When to use: a chapter opener needs a tinted page, a photo behind the title, or a full-page background in the printed book.

How this section behaves in your book’s table of contents.

Show in Table of Contents

Turns this section’s table of contents entry on or off.

Customize TOC Text

Changes the wording of this section’s table of contents entry, separately from the section’s real title. Useful when a long chapter title needs a shorter entry.

TOC Entry Styles

On a Table of Contents section, the Options menu also lets you style its entries: section entries, part entries, volume entries, and subheading entries, each on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I hide the heading title on a section?

Open the section’s Options menu, choose Customize Section Settings, and turn off Show Title in Header. The section keeps its place in your book, it just stops showing its title at the top. You can hide the subtitle and the heading image the same way. See Section Style Settings.

Do these settings affect my whole book?

No. Every choice in the Options menu affects only the current section. Your other sections stay exactly as they were. This is how you give different parts of your book different treatments.

How do I know a section has custom changes?

The Options button turns blue, and the changed items inside the menu show a small blue dot. A green dot next to a heading style means that style is using a custom preset.

Can I go back to my book’s normal settings?

Yes. For settings like heading images, styles, and backgrounds, clear the section’s own setting and it goes back to your book-wide setting.

Chapter Heading Images: set default images across all chapters.
Section Types: what each kind of section is, and when to use it.
Print Page Colors: color the page background for a section in print.
Table of Contents: build and style your book’s contents.