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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yes, I know, I sound like a MSFT commercial for Word. Trust me, I'm not--but it frustrates me that people get so stymied with Word. Typically--and this may not be your instance, i freely admit--it's because they've never taken a few hours to genuinely learn what's at the heart of it.
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Yep. When I got frustrated with all the horrible documents I was getting, I blamed Word.
All throughout school, I got taught and used it all wrong (Direct Formatting)... and everyone I ever knew used Word that crappy way too. And every time the document exploded? I blamed Word.
When I finally decided to mess around with Word, professionally, a few years ago (mostly because of your highest of praises for Toxaris's EPUBTools)... I actually spent ~30 minutes learning Styles from those 2 tutorial videos.
I exported as "Clean HTML"—expecting the usual disaster I read about on forums (and saw) for years. Nope, everything turned out relatively clean.
That's the day you won me over.
(And I couldn't believe how many years I wasted... solved in less than an hour.)
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Then when I saw how amazing Toxaris's tools were—just like you said—that's the day I added Microsoft Word as an integral part of my conversion toolkit.
- Finereader cleanup?
- Nothing better than EPUBTools.
- Checking for “mismatching“ or “missing quotes?
- Nothing better than EPUBTools.
- Need more spellchecking/grammarchecking?
- Need to clean up someone's mess?
- You can Select > Select All Text With Similar Formatting, then correct the bulk of their busted formatting -> Styles very quickly.
- I wish LibreOffice had that. It makes it so much easier to fix documents. (Especially files from Google Docs.)
- Note: LibreOffice currently requires a much more cumbersome F&R method.
- Comparing 2 documents to see the differences?
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This is what I was talking about with unique pros/cons for every format/method/program.
When I took the entire ebook-making process into account, Word slotted itself in there in a few key situations.
(Just like using spreadsheet programs for complex tables!!!
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