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Originally Posted by Marj
For myself, I'm very pleased that Smashwords is based on a Word doc. I would never have coped with anything more difficult. As it was, I took 3 days to upload the first book - and a lot of chocolate to help me cope with the stress.
And afterwards, the other formats seemed to be fine as far as I can tell. Only that there's no conversion to Amazon at this stage, though there is a Smashwords Kindle version.
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From what I've been reading, it's easier to learn to use Sigil (and learn CSS/XML) to make a good looking ePub then it is to learn to format a Word document to match the Smashwords style guide.
If it was me, I'd go for the make my own ePub and be a lot happier with a nice eBook then a substandard eBook.
Also, you have MR to help when you need it. But a lot of the errors people come here to try to get fixed that are caused by the Word/meatgrinder combination are not easy to fix as they have to be fixed in Word and the error message posted has nothing to do with whatever it is in Word that needs to be fixed. But come to MR with code samples (from the ePub), the error message(s), and it can be fixed.