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DiapDealer · 12-29-2015, 08:42 AM

Pasting formatted content from Word into Book View will work--as you've found out. But that doesn't mean the code that results will automatically be epub-spec valid. You've not mentioned what the errors were, by the way, so I'm assuming they're validation errors/warnings of some kind and not, in fact, well-formed errors.

I'm admittedly biased on the subject of Book View editing, so I would definitely say that table-pasting from Word into Book View is not the way to go. Others' mileage may vary, of course.

I would suggest saving the entire Word document as filtered html and importing that into a Sigil epub--or better yet, using Toxaris' Word add-in--rather than copy/pasting formatted data from Word to Sigil.

12-29-2015, 08:42 AM	#3
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,439 Karma: 203720150 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Pasting formatted content from Word into Book View will work--as you've found out. But that doesn't mean the code that results will automatically be epub-spec valid. You've not mentioned what the errors were, by the way, so I'm assuming they're validation errors/warnings of some kind and not, in fact, well-formed errors. I'm admittedly biased on the subject of Book View editing, so I would definitely say that table-pasting from Word into Book View is not the way to go. Others' mileage may vary, of course. I would suggest saving the entire Word document as filtered html and importing that into a Sigil epub--or better yet, using Toxaris' Word add-in--rather than copy/pasting formatted data from Word to Sigil.