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lisashea · 02-05-2021, 02:42 PM

Thank you all so much for the suggestions! I will definitely install the plugin and work with that.

I am a strong proponent of using styles and do use them for everything. In the instances I'm running up against, even with my styles, I'm not sure that there's any way for me to undo the way Word creates a filtered HTML file to have it stop doing those specific things. For example on the links Word is adding code for the color of the regular link and for the visited link. I can certainly set a color for both of those things - but I don't think I can instruct Word not to have ANY color at all for those two values. I think it's always going to have some sort of a value it sets which I then need to strip out.

Does someone know of a way to tell Word not to have any link and vlink color setting used when exporting a filtered HTML?

Also, in a variety of places Word will insert:

<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br
clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>
</span>

I'm definitely not instructing the "clear=all" setting, but that gets choked on by EPUB systems. So I have to strip that out.

On the third set of challenges, the "Picture 1" and "Picture 2" and so on default tags for images, sure, I could go through every single image in the entire document and give them ALT settings. I'm just not up for that task. I have hundreds of books. Some of my books have hundreds of images for various reasons and it would take more time than it's worth. It's easier just to remove that space.

02-05-2021, 02:42 PM	#19
lisashea Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: none	Thank you all so much for the suggestions! I will definitely install the plugin and work with that. I am a strong proponent of using styles and do use them for everything. In the instances I'm running up against, even with my styles, I'm not sure that there's any way for me to undo the way Word creates a filtered HTML file to have it stop doing those specific things. For example on the links Word is adding code for the color of the regular link and for the visited link. I can certainly set a color for both of those things - but I don't think I can instruct Word not to have ANY color at all for those two values. I think it's always going to have some sort of a value it sets which I then need to strip out. Does someone know of a way to tell Word not to have any link and vlink color setting used when exporting a filtered HTML? Also, in a variety of places Word will insert: <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'> </span> I'm definitely not instructing the "clear=all" setting, but that gets choked on by EPUB systems. So I have to strip that out. On the third set of challenges, the "Picture 1" and "Picture 2" and so on default tags for images, sure, I could go through every single image in the entire document and give them ALT settings. I'm just not up for that task. I have hundreds of books. Some of my books have hundreds of images for various reasons and it would take more time than it's worth. It's easier just to remove that space.