I have now tried the different conversions.
XML seems to be the most similar to what Word's Sources Management file look like. Yet, it still won't recognize it as a bibliographic database file. I'm fairly sure I should be able to find my way around that, probably with some macro code (things like this are repetitive, hence reasonably attainable even for a non-programmer.
However, there are two things I need to figure ot.
In the output is a record named "pub_date" that looks like a date, followed by time and timezone. Like this:
<pubdate>2012-06-19T07:00:00+09:00</pubdate>
In my library I have a column Published, that gives a month and year for publication. Like this:
Dec, 2012
This is the format i also want in the bibliography. Why is the Calibre conversion so exact, including time zone and hours?
The other thing is input for Authors. Word wants to have a separate entry for Last_Name and First_Name, how do I break up that in the conversion for a catalog.
Sorry for all the noobie questions, but this is one feature I've not tried out Before and to ge honest the Manual isn't exactly helpful. To me, it seems to be written by engineers for engineers. Not an end user like me.
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This is what an exported My Books XML file entry look like:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<calibredb>
-<record>
<publisher>Random House Inc Clients</publisher>
<isbn>9781780964447</isbn>
<identifiers>isbn:9781780964447</identifiers>
<title sort="Tokugawa Ieyasu (Command)">Tokugawa Ieyasu (Command)</title>
-<authors sort="Turnbull, Stephen">
<author>Turnbull, Stephen</author>
</authors>
<pubdate>2012-06-19T07:00:00+09:00</pubdate>
</record>
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And this what Word's look like
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<b:Sources xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography" xmlns:b="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography" SelectedStyle="">
-<b:Source>
<b:Tag>Bos01</b:Tag>
<b:SourceType>JournalArticle</b:SourceType>
<b:Guid>{9E5C79A3-26C9-4A94-8A92-9DE51C28CF84}</b:Guid>
<b:Title>English Immersion in a Japanese School</b:Title>
<b:Year>2001</b:Year>
<b:Publisher>Bilingual Education</b:Publisher>
-<b:Author>
-<b:Author>
-<b:NameList>
-<b:Person>
<b:Last>Bostwick</b:Last>
<b:First>M.</b:First>
</b:Person>
</b:NameList>
</b:Author>
</b:Author>
<b:Volume>8</b:Volume>
<b:Issue>2</b:Issue>
</b:Source>
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Seems to me like it shouldn't be overly difficult getting these to merge.
