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Yes, in MS Word 2007, but I was winging it and it wasn't set up correctly and learned on the way, so it probably has lots of problems.
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Obviously it is best to set up correctly the first time (named styles rock
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But since you don't have that NOW, you will just have to work with what you have.
It may or may not be easier to sit down and restyle everything in Word first, rather than in calibre/Sigil -- I don't know.
No use crying over spilled milk.
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What about the Adobe part?
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Adobe InDesign costs money and hides what you are doing behind only-partly-working magic. My advice is to not trust WYSIWYG editing for the formatting and cleanup stage of your publication workflow.
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I haven't tried to run it into Calibre or anything yet to just see how it might turn out. Is there any problems moving the programs via flash drive because the computer I did it all on is not online.
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Moving stuff via flashdrive is not a problem. In fact,
http://PortableApps.com has portable versions of both calibre and Sigil, and I've used both with no ill effects.
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Even though it seems okay on this computer, in 2010(?) Word, not sure haven't 'paged' through it and checked. I'm worried it will look like a train wreck the first try.
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Well, if you keep worrying, you will never get anything done.
I will forgive you if you aren't perfect on your first try
the important thing is to experiment until you figure out how to do it well.
Again -- use Pablo's tutorial, and get the hang of how an EPUB is put together behind the scenes. It is easier than you might think (most of HTML is really geared towards multimedia websites and is not applicable to EPUB, and can be safely ignored).
Start off with the automatically-converted EPUB that the Editor opens (or that Toxaris' addin creates).
See how well that looks.
Then see how much you feel comfortable tweaking yourself. Chances are the EPUB you start off with looks decent enough for a first attempt anyway (though the purist in me would obsessively consolidate styles and nitty-gritty structural elements).