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Originally Posted by Darqref
I haven't done too many, and my formatting tastes are simple, but here's what I did.
1. get it into *reasonable* format in word. Don't try to be too specific about things, and it's best if you can be both simple and specific about formats such as quoted text and chapter headings.
2. Download HarryT's procedures on using BookDesigner and Mobipocketcreator. These tools are available from MR, and questions here tend to get some help.
3. Save the Word file as RTF. (incidently, my OCR program has the option of saving into more than one version of RTF. Always choose the simplest version. I use the one aimed at WordPad, not Word, since WordPad has a more limited RTF feature set.)
4. Import the file into BookDesigner, and clean up everything. make your chapter headings, build your table of contents, make sure to search for all the silly little places where a space got set to a different format, and such.
5. Save the file from BookDesigner as HTML0 (which is the native format for the tool). Don't try to have BookDesigner build the mobi file
6. Following Harry's instructions, use MobipocketCreator to generate the .mobi file
7. Archive the html0 and mobi files. If you find you want to tweak things in a simple manner, go back to BookDesigner. If you have complicated formatting requirements, ask for more help, 'cause you're beyond me.
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No, my formatting requirements aren't any more complicated than that.
To be honest, I don't know why I didn't think of using BD - I did use it a few times,
ages ago, when I first got my Sony Reader, but I eventually drifted over to Sigil for ePub stuff.
I'll definitely give the above a whirl, though - thanks!