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Originally Posted by cHex
[*]I'm frustrated at how complicated it is to create content for the Kindle, and how complicated it is to convert documents. I'm doing all kinds of google searching, downloading, trying to find instructions for using tools, etc. Please share info on your favorite HTML wysiwyg+code view editors![/LIST]
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I use MS Word for my HTML editor for books. I just save it as filter Webpage then import into Calibre and convert to Mobi. It works well
If I need to edit or view the html code I use Notepad2 which is free.
I love using Word as it's powerful for cleaning up a badly formatted books by using regular expressions, I can fix broken sentences, Find problem words, do a good spell check if needed, add emdashes...etc. I also love Word has a Find & Replace for formatting like Bold, Right, left or Center Align, Font Size...etc and the Styles feature you can batch edit all text of that particular style. So if all Chapters use one Style I can edit them all at one time changing the Size, Bold and so forth.
Most people own a copy of Word as mine came with my PC. It's an old version 2003 but it does what I need and quickly. I'd never recommend it for designing websites but it's great for ebooks, specially the bad formatted ones you find on Smashwords or Amazon.