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@Coolmeadow - do you make use of Word Styles?

If one uses MS Word like a typewriter -- i.e. using tabs and spaces for horizontal spacing, empty paragraphs for vertical spacing etc -- then one will probably get an unsatisfactory result with lots on inline styling within the XHTML.

However, if you use Word Styles assiduously then calibre will use them pretty much 1-for-1 to create CSS entries, in which case the XHTML will be much tidier -- and the reader will see a consistent presentation and layout.

To clarify my earlier post, I use DOCX->EPUB conversion for texts with simple styling, and the Editor DOCX Import for texts with more complex styling - its an intuitive decision. Conversion suits my daily document intake workflow because I can queue them, and whilst they are chugging along I can do housekeeping on metadata, and workflow records.

BR