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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Coolmeadow - I get the impression you're saving HTML from Word and importing it into the editor. I suggest you save your Word document in DOCX format and import the DOCX into into the editor. My experience is that Calibre does a better job of converting MS DOCX than its does converting MS HTML.
I don't convert until I have a 'print ready proof' in DOCX. The only ePUB editing I regularly need to do relates to layout of images, front matter titivating, and removal of superfluous metadata. I regard the DOCX files as the 'master' - there's where I'd go to create a second edition.
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No, I do MS DOCX and convert to EPUB to edit the HTML in Calibre. But I still find that a lot of the formatting changes though, and I have to edit that by straightening out the HTML. Or at least my version of straightening it out. It's all cutting and pasting the HTML from a section I find I can figure out what it is doing in the final product. Then I make the whole book match that. One of the weird things the last few attempts have done is in the HTML editing screen is the text is in bold, but it isn't in the viewing screen. This never happened in the first three books I've written and edited in Calibre. But the HTML looks very weird. I just finished editing it out of part of a 182 KB section of the book. It will take me a few days to get all of it done, but I'll get it where I want it. At least with everyone's help here, I've got a plan that I
think will work. Like all things in life, time will tell.
Thanks again for all the suggestions. I really do appreciate the help. Jim.