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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You are doing it in a not very optimal way. You see, you need to get your eBook looking how you want. That means you need to convert the Word document to ePub and then clean it up as needed to make it look like you want. Then from there you do not go back to the Word document to edit. You stick with the ePub as your source document. You make any and all edits using the ePub you've now created. That ePub becomes your master document to make any other formats you want. Calibre's editor will work quite well to help you edit the ePub. Going back to the Word document to make any edits and then converting again is a very poor way to do what you want. Depending on how your Word document converts, you could end up with much more work then you need to be doing.
Following my directions here will save you time and effort and it will make sure your eBooks look as you want. As for the drop caps issue you mentioned before, ePub and KF8 (AZW3) do support drop caps. It's Mobi that does not.
When you are making eBooks, you have to adapt to the new way to do things and the way I described doing things is the way to do it. Going back to the Word document every time you want to make changes is the wrong way to do it. You have to make sure your resulting eBook looks good and is as you want. That means converting and then editing the eBook. So you don't want to be doing the conversion and the edition every time you have changes to make when you could easily make the changes in the source ePub.
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This is such sensible advice and given so nicely, that I am going to quote it for everyone to see again.
Thanks, Jon.