Okay, wrote a very long reply and the system logged me out while writing it.
The gist being that pasting into Book View and pasting into PageEdit is NOT the same.
Book View copy/paste with CMD-V, as "plain text":
Code:
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p><br/></p>
<p>Two Little Problems</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>A J.B. DANNAN NOVEL</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>BOOK SEVEN</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>STEVE COOPER</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>Copyright © 2018 Steve Cooper</p>
Very clean, can see the breaks, etc. Does strip out italics and such (which my author uses a lot).
PageEdit (which is linked to the icon in Sigil) with CMD-V, does not give the option to choose "plain text":
Code:
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p><!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
And it just goes on and on like that before even getting to the Title and then the rest is crazy junk throughout. (totally don't know why emojis are showing up in the code on the post preview!!)
If I use the Paste/Clipboard icon in PageEdit, I do get the paste as plain text and then it looks like this:
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Two Little Problems A J.B. DANNAN NOVEL BOOK SEVEN STEVE COOPER “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.” Copyright © 2018 Steve Cooper All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, re-coding, or any information storage and retrieval system, or any method not yet devised, without permission in writing from the author of this publication.....
And 363 pages are crammed into one giant block closed out with a paragraph tag (and a styles list code at the end).
As to Styles in Word, the author writes on Pages, sends to me, I put it into Word and format for the print version, then after proof, I dump into Sigil. He doesn't know Styles (because he uses Pages) and I hate Word, so I don't know Styles either. I'll have to look into it, after this book, if it would help.
I will try some of the suggested plugins. Because even if I were to stick with 9.14, I still need a good way to not have to re-add the formatting because that sucks a lot.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and responses!