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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Use the Paste button or the Paste menu item so you get the choice of pasting plain text vs rich text. Or, you know, fight it forever because it's slightly different. Your choice.
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Not my intention to "fight it", just noting there are no choices between "plain vs rich", unless "No" represents "rich text" which is the crazy Word code soup. This is probably my misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Because your code--which would work much better in a code block--coincidentally contains the keyboard shortcuts to create emojis. The aforementioned code block would eliminate that (or you could go to the advanced post editor and tick the box to disable smilies).
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Again, my apologies, I've never been on these kinds of forums before and wasn't sure how to do the "code" block inside a post. Is it the # icon in the ribbon?
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Why would anyone paste 363 pages into Sigil (Book View or PageEdit) in one go!? That's crazy. Use one of the other import methods mentioned to get clean html from Word into Sigil.
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I dunno. It's how I've done 9 previous books. Dump in, split at sections, proceed with formatting. Book View, other than losing the italics formatting, makes very nice cleaned up HTML out of Word docs.
I did install the DOCXimport plugin and YES! it keeps the formatting intact and is almost as clean as the BookView clean up (maybe BookView could live on as a clean up plugin because thus far, it's been the best at making very workable HTML from Word, again minus the lack of keeping formatting intact).
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Or just go back to Sigil 0.9.14, Book View, and what obviously works for you. Sounds like you'd be much happier with it anyway.
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I like staying up to date, if possible. I'm proceeding with the current project at 9.14 but am willing to upgrade if there's an advantage. What are the technical advantages to the new engine? (aside from the interface that we've been discussing).
Thanks again for all the suggestions, the new plugin seems to work very well and the new project is proceeding much faster due to not having to hunt down all the italics! That alone is worth it.