[Ripplinger]

I scanned a book and then used MS Word to do all the proof-reading and editing, saved as html and then am using Sigil to clean it up. I have a feeling MS Word was the wrong program to use. It first put everything into text boxes (which was a pain to get rid of those), but it also added hundreds of various fonts and styles from the scan which I would like to eliminate. I don't mind a few pages having special fonts, like the table of contents or the publishing page, but throughout the body of the book I'd like just one font.

Is there an easy way to trim all the font classes and font styles that are in the epub? I originally was just going to copy/paste it back with no formatting, but that method also killed any italics, and there's a lot throughout the book and important to me to keep them as italics (without having to read line-by-line through the entire book again to find them to italicize, that would be painful, there's that many of them).

Any suggestions how to easily do this? I did try letting Calibre convert epub to epub, and even that stylesheet was over 2000 lines long. The size of the epub would probably be cut in half as well, it's at 480KB now. The epub does work, even linking the table of contents takes you to the correct chapter, but it has very slight changes of the font and spacing even on the same page throughout the book.

Thanks for any suggestions.