If you are planning to submit your book to an agent it's a good idea to get the formatting set up right at the beginning so you don't have to go through all the tedious effort later of formatting several hundred pages.
So here's the low down. You are going to want to use a Word document, or if you prefer free software, you can download Libre which has a program very similar to Word (and its files can also be saved in Word format so if you send it to someone using Word, they can open it.) You may need to Google some of these instructions for Libre since they use slightly different names for some of their tool bars.
YOUR COVER PAGE
First your cover page that needs to be formatted like this:
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Make sure to add a page break at the end of it. You do that by going to the main tool bar at the top:
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Click on Insert, in the drop down list click Break
Which opens this pane
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Click the button beside 'Page break'. Click OK. A dotted line will appear where your cursor was placed.
THE HEADER
Now you need to make a header for your book. It needs to show on every page except the cover page.
