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Old 01-25-2016, 07:31 PM   #6
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Random example -- I just got a free copy of one of Brandon Sanderson's unpublished drafts, Aether of Night. (Not being an author myself, I mostly mess around with other peoples' work. )

No styles used anywhere, No chapter breaks or table of contents, just straight typing into Word, delivered as a DOCX.

Reduced to plain text, I was able to easily whip it into shape.
I used some regular expressions to strip out useless classes that were only setting some base CSS for paragraph elements (this is not critically important).
I took each "Chapter xxxx" and wrapped it in <h1> headers, then split along each one.
I replaced the ### scenebreaks with a slight variation on Pablo's simple scenebreak code.
Used the ToC tool to generate a ToC, added a generic cover image, and it looks fine on my ereader.

I didn't bother with making an About The Author or copyright page , presumably you have some sort of template derived from Word for that, but anyway, see how

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