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lizarddreaming · 07-25-2019, 07:19 PM

Hi there!

I've been using Sigil (most recently 9.14) for a while to convert Word doc manuscript novels into epubs. I love the program and how easy it is (was). Copy and paste the Word doc into the Book Viewer as "plain" text, find and replace all the extraneous <p><br/><p> and such, and it was really good at getting rid of the other crap that Word tries to insert. Then go through, split the chapters, then go back through and add back in all the italics and bolding and what not. VERY easy to do being able to quickly switch back and forth between code and book view. It's a workflow that (other than losing all the formatting italics and such, which is a pain in the ass to go back and mark) is fairly quick and easy.

I upgraded to 9.16 and everything just fell apart. There's no way now to dump a generally clean document into Sigil. And having to switch between THREE screens (the Word doc to find the formatting, the PageEdit app and Sigil itself) has completely broken any sort of flow I might have had.

So, my question is... how do you now import a Word document without all the extra nonsense (I tried "save as a filtered HTML" from the Sigil user guide and it would take me days to remove all the extra stuff it had in there from Word when I loaded it into Sigil).

Is there a way to import the document WITH the formatting intact (I went to the "MS Word Macro", suggested in the User Guide, but that seems to be for Windows only, I'm on a Mac, please correct me if I'm wrong) because that would be so super helpful to not have to go back through the entire document again inputting all the italics and whatnot.

And if that were the case, then I could probably figure out a better way to change over to 9.16 and PageEdit and a different workflow without needing the Word Doc opened at the same time (the Preview window would probably be enough for me at that point).

For now, I'm going to reinstall 9.14 so I can at least finish this current project and then reassess.

Any advice or suggestions would be GREATLY GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you so very much!

07-25-2019, 07:19 PM	#1
lizarddreaming Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2019 Device: iPad with Kindle app	Questions about 9.16 Hi there! I've been using Sigil (most recently 9.14) for a while to convert Word doc manuscript novels into epubs. I love the program and how easy it is (was). Copy and paste the Word doc into the Book Viewer as "plain" text, find and replace all the extraneous <p><br/><p> and such, and it was really good at getting rid of the other crap that Word tries to insert. Then go through, split the chapters, then go back through and add back in all the italics and bolding and what not. VERY easy to do being able to quickly switch back and forth between code and book view. It's a workflow that (other than losing all the formatting italics and such, which is a pain in the ass to go back and mark) is fairly quick and easy. I upgraded to 9.16 and everything just fell apart. There's no way now to dump a generally clean document into Sigil. And having to switch between THREE screens (the Word doc to find the formatting, the PageEdit app and Sigil itself) has completely broken any sort of flow I might have had. So, my question is... how do you now import a Word document without all the extra nonsense (I tried "save as a filtered HTML" from the Sigil user guide and it would take me days to remove all the extra stuff it had in there from Word when I loaded it into Sigil). Is there a way to import the document WITH the formatting intact (I went to the "MS Word Macro", suggested in the User Guide, but that seems to be for Windows only, I'm on a Mac, please correct me if I'm wrong) because that would be so super helpful to not have to go back through the entire document again inputting all the italics and whatnot. And if that were the case, then I could probably figure out a better way to change over to 9.16 and PageEdit and a different workflow without needing the Word Doc opened at the same time (the Preview window would probably be enough for me at that point). For now, I'm going to reinstall 9.14 so I can at least finish this current project and then reassess. Any advice or suggestions would be GREATLY GREATLY appreciated! Thank you so very much!