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Originally Posted by ljstreet
Hi - I am new at this and getting very frustrated.
I have written and published a hard-copy book, 440 pages with 220 illustrations, originally in MS Word.
I want to make it available as an e-book, but can't seem to get it to convert.
I have tried converting the .doc file but get an error message right away.
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Calibre doesn't convert Word's .doc format.
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I converted the .doc file to pdf, it converted quite nicely but none of the internal hotlinks worked, which made the file useless in this situation.
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PDF is a particularly bad format to try to convert from.
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I saved the .doc file as html which looked great
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This is the approach I use. It works best if you save it from Word as HTML (Filtered).
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, converted it to epub and the links work fine, but the images were not converted as they are in many different folders and I can't upload them without hours of work, if at all.
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I don't understand this. My images convert when used in a Word .doc file. I'm not sure what "upload" you are referring to. I just insert the images into the Word document, then convert to HTML Filtered and drag the file into calibre.
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I dl'ed Open Office and converted the Word file to their format, as I heard it was more easily converted - same result, error message as follows:
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I've heard this works well, but I've never tried it.