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Originally Posted by Toxaris
I don't dare saying anything anymore about the Calibre conversion of Word documents...
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Actually, I was somewhat saying that for this TYPE of "want," e.g., "I wanna paste from WYSIWYG in Word and not have to know anything," Calibre is likely the best candidate. You and I and many others prefer the more finite control over named styles, but this person does not seem to want to do that.
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However, converting Word to HTML can be cumbersome and you have to sacrifice certain things. Most Word to HTML conversions don't deliver what you want or need. Copying between WYSIWYG programs usually deliver WYSIDNWYW (what you see is definitly not what you want).
If you want to retain the styles, you are almost out of luck. I retain the stylenames, but not the styles formatting.
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It's actually a bit beyond "cumbersome." I mean, trust me; we've tried EVERYTHING here to make it more..."cookie-cutter," but as I said, books=fingerprints. No two are the same. No two people create a manuscript the same way. (We had one in here in the last 10 days in which the typist actually hit the SPACE BAR to wrap around to start a new paragraph. You can't make this s**t up.)
Copy and paste will never work UNLESS the ms is completely cleaned and styled FIRST. Someone can do that in Word, or do it in HTML. (With certain exceptions: for example, if you get a Pages-->Word file with italics, 99% of the time, that cannot be cleaned/fixed in Word and MUST be fixed in HTML.)
{shrug}. SSDD.
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