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Hi,
Although mentioned earlier, an even easier way to make the conversion is to use OpenOffice.org and its free plugin writer2xhtml.oxt. Both are free and cross-platform and work very well.
The work flow then becomes:
1. edit your file in Word until your heart is content, then save it as a Word file.
2. open your Word file in OpenOffice.org (after installing the free plugin) and yes it can read and write Word files. Yes it has dictionaries in many languages not supported by MS. Yes, it can do pretty much whatever Office can do - and it is free (as in free beer) and is GPL licensed as well.
3. Do any other editing you want, then export your document to xhtml via the plugin.
4. Fire up Sigil or Calibre to load/convert the xhtml to epub or whatever you want.
The xhtml is much better formatted than the crap that MS Word produces.
There is even a plugin to take you direct to epub although I am not sure how far along that is.
The nice thing is that if you are unfamiliar with OpenOffice.org, you can do most of your editing in Word and only use OpenOffice.org for the conversion to xhtml if you so desire.
KevinH
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