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Originally Posted by blackrock36
I had no idea that Word put all of that BS into the html code which the other contributors have also pointed out. I just want to write and not work on html code but I guess that Microsoft don't agree!
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A Word doc is an html file. An ebook is an html file (well, usually). An e-reader is in essence just a rudimentary web browser.
It upsets people on the MobiRead forums, but I simply paste my Word doc into Word2CleanHtml dot Com online. Then I paste the clean html between the body tags provided by Sigil when I open a new epub2 file. In the heading, I add a link to my style sheet, and of course I add my style sheet to the Styles folder. Then I split Sigil's file into separate chapters and sections. It works beautifully, and rarely do I have to fix a validation problem. I do use the separately downloaded Flight Crew plug-in every thirty minutes or so, and before I upload the finished epub to Draft2Digital, Google Play (that may no longer be necessary, since D2D has Google in beta), and Amazon's KDP platform, I run it through Epub Check. Passing Epub Check is necessary if you hope to have the book accepted by the Apple store.
I understand that Toxaris's Word plug-in does the same thing, though unfortunately it does not work on my machine.