Thread: Compatibility of Sigil coding on different ebook apps
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Old 02-26-2019, 06:24 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
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I note the OP refers to having a DOC file, that is the pre Word 2007 internal format. Is that what he truly has ?

The 'don't use your word processor as if it were a circa 1930 Remington Portable" rule applies equally to producing a DOC in Word '97 as it does to using Word 2016 and saving as DOCX.

My experience was that converting DOCs was problematic compared to converting DOCX, where I have a choice of tools -- calibre conversion and editor import, Sigil plugins, ePub-Tools etc. Hence the earlier practice of saving as Filtered HTML and bashing that into shape. As I recall most (all) of the mso-blah-blah crap came from inline paragraph styling formatting.

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Dunno, but I cannot tell a lie--honestly, I never saw any real difference. I started out with 2003's doc format and moved up over time to docx, (and we still get doc files, along with WPS, Works, WordPerfect, oo, lo, you-name-it) and I've never seen any huge difference.

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