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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
I still fail to see why anyone writing a book which will ONLY be published as epub would go anywhere near Word, or any other page-layout orientated program. You'll just be putting in stuff which has to be stripped out, and frustrate yourself attempting layout features that epub doesn't support.
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Because we may change our minds later and right now the format most "required" is Word. I wasn't going to do print versions when I started out, but there was enough demand. I used OO saved as doc, but didn't realize that when saving to PDF, it stripped my formatting each time (because it wasn't in OO before conversion.) There are always going to be gotchas, but a program that outputs multiple formats is helpful and probably mandatory for a lot of us. Word isn't all that and more, but neither is OO. In the end I think we have to be prepared to so some manual formatting.