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Originally Posted by FDPuthuff

This has answered my question of 'How to use Word as written.'
Thanks for the video links.

I think Styles are the #1 most important step you can learn.

You start thinking in "purpose" instead of "looks":

• Purpose (Good)
  
  • "Chapter 1" is a Heading.
    
  • These three asterisks mean scenebreak.
• Looks (Bad)
  
  • "Let me click the Centered button, the Italics button, the size 48 font dropdown"
    
  • ... and let me repeat that for all my chapter titles throughout the entire book, then hope I don't make a mistake.
    
  • ... and then let me push this other list of buttons for all the asterisks.
    

              Chapter 1 <--- Heading 1

This is an example first sentence. <--- First.

               * * *   <--- Scenebreak.

And the beginning of a new scene.   <--- First.

    Today, it was a dark and stormy night.   <--- A normal paragraph.

Now that you have everything marked by with Styles (its purpose), now you can say:

• "Hey, make all my Headings Centered + Bold + This fancy font."
• "Hey, I want my First paragraphs to have no indent."
• "Hey, I want each scenebreak to be Centered and have a larger gap above/below."

Now when you export your clean DOCX to ebooks, all that information will be transferred over!

<h1>Chapter 1</h1>

<p class="first">This is an example first sentence.</p>

<p class="scenebreak">* * *</p>

<p class="first">And the beginning of a new scene.</p>

<p>Today, it was a dark and stormy night.</p>

Wow, now that's some nice stuff!

Originally Posted by Hitch

There you are. You seem to have been MIA of late. ???

Heh, yep yep. Past month I completely dropped off the radar... was digitizing a ~2 million word beast. (10+ more volumes of a journal.)

Spellchecking/Grammarchecking is done, and now it's just correcting the little things here and there.