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1. Log into FLOSSManuals Write Interface - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
2. Open in a separate tab or window, the existing Mifos Manual - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/mifos-user-manual/_edit/. You will use this to reference which chapters to import. 
3. Click My Manuals. From there, enter the title for your new manual (you can select license or to hide from others initially) and click create
4. Your manual now shows up My Manuals. Click edit.
5. You will now see the typical Booki editing interface.
6. Let's first create a section that we can import chapters to. I will call them, About This Manual, Administration, and Managing Products.
7. Click Import Chapter. A Clone Chapter window will pop up. Values in this fields will auto-populate based on existing manuals.  
   1. For book id, begin typing "mifos". Select "mifos-user-manual" when it shows up.
   2. For chapter id, begin typing the names of the chapters you would like to import. Use the existing Mifos Manual to recognize chapter names.
8. For example, I want to import several of the chapters from the Introduction Section of the Mifos User Manual. I want to import the first three chapters. 
   1. The first chapter is "Welcome to Mifos". I begin by typing "welcome" and then select the chapter. You can optionally rename the chapter if you'd like. Click clone chapter. 
   2. The chapter will show up in your manual. You must then drag it to the respective section. 
9. Repeat the same tasks for the other chapters to import. <Show Chapters>
10. You can rename a chapter by double clicking the title.
11. To edit a chapter, simply click edit. A WYSIWYG editor will display the full cloned chapter which you can edit according to the needs of the MFI. 
12. To keep this example simple, I won't make any edits to chapter and will skip to publishing a manual.

Exporting a Manual

You have the ability to export this manual as a PDF, ePub format, or OpenOffice format. Let's try PDF.

1. Export to PDF. Type in a title for your book title. Select "book (PDF)" from the Document type dropdown menu. 
   1. Click Publish this Book. 
   2. When completed, a link to the PDF will be generated.  
2. Export to OpenOffice (can open in Word and have editable doc). Type in a title for your book title. Select "openoffice" from the Document type dropdown menu.
   1. Click Publish this Book.
   2. When completed, a link to the .odt document will be generated. You can now open this in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or Open Office.
3. Selecting the checkbox for Send to Lulu.com will allow you to purchase your manual as a hard copy book.

Creating a Printed Book via Lulu.com

Lulu.com is an open publishing tool allows you to publish your manual and purchase a hardcopy or paperback version of your manual as a physical book.