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Old 07-16-2012, 12:29 AM   #6
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julid,

If your original 'text' is simple (i.e your not using things like columns or flowing text around images etc) then the following might work as effectively for you as it does for me.

Rather than using Word's Save as Web Page, save the document in Word as an RTF (rich text format) file. Add the RTF to Calibre and convert the RTF to epub & mobi.

You can edit the RTF file in Word much as you would a regular Word document file, providing you stay away from Word's advanced features. I do most of my work on RTF files now

RTF files are typically twice as big as Word 1997/2003 DOC files, which in turn are twice as big as Word 2007/2010 DOCX files. So, once a work is finished you might want to save the original in the native format (DOC or DOCX) to save space - personally I don't bother.

The simplest way to insert a page break in Word is CTRL/Enter

The only place you should have paragraph marks (hard returns) are at the end of paragraphs.

If you use Word's Paragraph Formatting features for things like indents, space before/after, Widow/Orphan control etc and save as RTF then you should get very faithful conversions.

BR

Last edited by BetterRed; 07-16-2012 at 06:44 AM. Reason: clarity
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