Creating a new book

Question

I am trying to create a new book. In the help menu it tells me to go to file>new book. When I go to file that option isn't even there! None of the steps it tells me to take even exist as buttons or options on my program. What do I do?

Answer 1

Thanks, eww,
I couldn't remember where the 'Book' option was in iP4 since I no longer have it.
However, when you compile the photos in a book, there is somewhere a command that you can select or deselect that will allow iPhoto to automatically place your photos, or you can do them yourself and select the page layout for each page. Mgladwell, you probably need to find this and deselect it so you can place the photos yourself.
You proceed forward with each page, creating the entire book and then you opt to 'Buy Book.' You should not choose 'buy' until you are finished with the creation of all the pages.
I do remember that keeping photos on the proper page was a bit tricky in iP4 and that a caution was put out in these discussions not to lock the pages because it caused problems.
One of the main problems was that the order of the photos was difficult to maintain. If you changed/deleted one photo, the entire rest of the book would be off by a photo and you had to redo the whole thing. Locking the page was supposed to correct this, but it caused problems of its own. I think these were addressed in iP5, because this seems to be better.
It has been about 6 months since I created a book, and of course it was last done in iP5.