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mobama: You are making very heavy weather of converting your books. Let's say you have a Word document which is mostly text and you want to convert it to read on a Kobo: rename the Word doc to an rtf (Calibre prefers this), then add it to Calibre.

Go to the metadata icon, click, and make sure the title etc is what you want. If you want the book to have blurb attached, click 'download metadata' and choose; then choose a cover.
Click okay.

Go to the Convert icon. I tend to convert individually. Choose the format to convert to - for Kobo this would be epub. I tend to ignore "Look and Feel" and "Heuristic Processing" because I don't understand them and things work fine anyway, but I do check "Page Setup" to ensure that it's set for the right device, for the sake of this example, Kobo. Then go to "Structure Detection" and click 'Insert Metadata at Start of Book'. At this point I'll just hit OK.

I'm sure that there's lots of other intricate stuff which could be done, but I don't find this necessary. The above takes a few moments (unless the book is particularly long) and the result is usually good. I'm usually converting epub to azw3, but the same would apply to a mostly text rtf to epub.

If I'm wrong, some helpful peep will come along and say so.