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Old 11-07-2014, 11:03 AM   #7
Notjohn
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat View Post
Write your book in Word, with consistent use of paragraph and heading styles, it will convert perfectly to EPUB and then on to Kindle with a clean, clear, readable layout. Heck, if you use the Footnotes feature in Word properly, it will even translate with automatic jump-links! Drop it into InDesign, you'll get a great-looking print layout. But the more you fuss over layout in the original, the more trouble you'll have.
Sigil doesn't import/open Word docs, does it? I put my Word docs through word2cleanhtml dot com online.

I'm told that newer iterations of Word do a better job of exporting to / saving as html, but my own version routinely turns a simple <p> into 90-100 characters, which can certainly add up in a conversation-heavy novel.
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