[BetterRed]

@lionscourt - where are you seeing effects such as "Chapters start half way down the page" and large gaps between paragraphs. If in the calibre viewer click the scroll icon top right corner.

I think that will solve your paging problem. Generally speaking, EPUB is NOT a paged format, its a continuous flow format.

If you are converting the output of Word, then the best format to use as input is DOCX. You can also import the DOCX into the Editor, apparently this should 'preserve' word style names in the css names. Speaking for myself it makes little difference, conversion is simpler (press C) and I rarely edit the EPUB, preferring instead to do all editing in the original DOCX.

My golden rule with Word is to avoid use of tabs and empty paragraphs to achieve horizontal and vertical spacing/alignment, I always use formatting and styles. That goes for any document, whether its a book or a letter.

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