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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Unless you make the effort to learn XML/CSS, then you may as well not bother with these DOC files as they won't convert well without doing some cleaning up.
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I couldn't agree more. The 2 objectives 'I want to create beautiful epubs with complex layouts' and 'I don't want to learn HTML/css' are mutually exclusive. You either need to learn a bit or lower your epub expectations. The amount of css knowledge required for manipulating epubs is much smaller than having to learn ALL of it.
On the subject of Word and images, I also went through the pain of 'how to create usable html from Word' about 3 years ago. As far as images are concerned, in the end I decided not to add them directly to my Word doc. Instead I added a text-placeholder (
using a text-string which included the image name). Once I saved as webpage-filtered, I was easily able to do a mass find/replace on the html file, using a good text editor.
P.S. Another tip, never try to apply a Dropcap style using Word's flavour of Dropcap. The resulting html was horrible. Now it may be my ancient version of Word that's at fault, but I suspect not
