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There are other and perhaps better ways, but I use Word2CleanHtml dot com to scrub all the garbage out of Word 2007 for an ebook. I open the clean html in Sigil and massage it there.
But for a print edition, while I do much preliminary work in Word, I switch to OpenOffice Writer to finalize the book. The menus are much simpler (I only do this once or at most twice a year) and the PDF Export more robust. (I've tried LibreOffice but didn't see the value added sufficient to master a new interface. I'm sure it's just as good, but for my purpose it's no better.)
I do have a reason for favoring Word for active writing and editing. I am an unreconstructed WordStar user (I use it every day, in "document" and "non-document" mode). A compassionate Englishman named Mike Petrie created a Word add-in that replicates most WordStar editing commands. This doubles my typing/editing speed once I have committed myself to the Microsoft option.
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