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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
No. You should go back the the original .odt file, and backport the changes you made after the fact in Sigil. Sigil isn't the place to make fundamental after-the-fact changes that produce the issue you are having. It is a tool to tweak the ePub output. It is not a tool to edit the content that went into it.
I strongly suspect that you will spend more time and trouble trying to turn ePub into docx than you would by just updating the odt file and doing a Save As docx.
You're welcome. You mkay find it a useful tool.
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Dennis
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Thanks Dennis. I don't know how to backport from Sigil to .odt. If I had the original untouched .epub I could but as soon as I opened the epub I started making changes.
I was looking at pandoc and it's command line only. I couldn't get the latest version to install. (It opened up in the Software Center but did not install.) It is in Synaptic but it's an older version there. But I can get it.
Do you think Pandoc might convert epub>docx better than Calibre?
Is Pandoc pretty easy to use? Kind of like:
$ book.epub book.odt
?
Or is it really complicated?
(And I do my primary editing in the .odt. It's just any typos or tweaks may happen in .epub and it would be impossible to find out what they were to make the corresponding changes in the .odt.)
P.S. Pandoc did install. It just took so long I gave up on it.
P.S.S.I found the instructions for converting in Pandoc and am following them now.