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Does anybody know how to rearrange folders so that the Title page is between the Cover page and the Table of Contents page please? No matter what I try and do the Table of Contents page ALWAYS appears immediately after the Cover, with the Title page third, which is incorrect :confused:

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I’ve moved this to tech support, the tips forum is for posting tips on how you use the software.

Okay, firstly, I don’t know what the frame of reference is for your question—I’m assuming e-books, but what type I can’t know. With either you have a little control, you can specify where the ToC appears by placing the <$toc> placeholder code into an empty file called “Contents” and put that were you want it to be. Note Amazon recommends keeping this in front of the main content—putting it elsewhere, such as the back of the book, will mess up reader’s sync-to-last-page features whenever they use it (I’d imagine the same advise is true of any reader that has some kind of “cloud” feature like that though).

The <$ebook_start> placeholder is also available to you with Mobi. That can be put in any document, the first document that Scrivener finds with it in the text area will be designated as the initial starting position for the reader.

But with Mobi in particular you can’t do anything with the cover. That’s not actually a part of the book content proper, but rather its meta-data. Kindles will display the cover if you hit page-back often enough, but this is just an illusion, it’s impossible to target it as a starting page or change where it appears.

ePub is a little more flexible in this regard, though Scrivener itself doesn’t have a configuration option for doing it. ePubs will have a main content “cover.xhtml” file. The location of this can be manipulated after compiling, using an ePub editor like Sigil or Calibre.

Just to be clear on one thing however, you state the current order as incorrect. That may be true for your specifications, but overall this order is considered fairly standard: cover -> title page -> ToC, just like when holding a printed book, but there is no standard for that. So you may be okay with how things are, considering that.