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Originally Posted by avantman42
As I said, "The defaults are generally sensible, and will work well enough most of the time.". If you've got a specific issue, try telling us exactly what it is and we'll do our best to help.
It sounds like you're trying to convert a file from one format to another, but there is no TOC in the output file. Is that right? What are you trying to convert from and to?
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Again I ask, does that mean you are supposed to simply leave everything blank? You already insisted they are sensible but didn't answer my question.
That demo must be a great marketing aid, but just skims the surface and is not a look up.
What am I trying to do?
I have piles of manuscripts in .odt and parallel .doc formats in Open Office Writer. I can send the .doc files through the Send to Kindle app, but Amazon returns it in the most elementary .mobi and/or .epub format available, with no covers, no TOC, no navigation.
By navigation I mean using the Kindle navigator button to jump a chapter at a time instead of a page at a time. Huge difference in usability.
When I found out that all this stuff is apparently HTML at root, I decided to try going through HTML (I went through the .odts and .docs and put H1 status on all my chapter headings before exporting as HTML) then using Calibre to convert the HTML into .epub and/or .mobi.
That is when I started getting little if any more than Amazon level outputs. (Speaking of which, I'm REALLY just guessing on how to do this from the icons. I run a conversion (hopefully) and save to disk - purely guessing. I'm not even sure how to run the save - where to save to. As I say, there's no guidance for it.)
Oddly enough, one of the conversions displayed a TOC in Kindle for PC, but not in my Kindle.
By doing the process over and over and over I have occasionally gotten output with TOCs and navigation.
So, between guessing at what I'm supposed to do in Calibre and having old files popping up on me instead of the one I'm trying to work with, I'm getting nowhere.