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Originally Posted by 1v4n0

EDIT: Fixed. [...] after some trial and error I located the issue in some tables that seemed to be one inside the other [...]. I fixed those and all went smoothly.

Glad to see you solved your issue.

Originally Posted by Quoth

1) Open Office is dead. Upgrade to LibreOffice [...]

Yes. OpenOffice has been abandoned for over 12 years.

LibreOffice has been getting:

• Major updates every 6 months
  
  • 7.3 -> 7.4
• Minor updates every month
  
  • 7.4.1 -> 7.4.2

and there's been TONS of:

• new features
• performance upgrades
• compatibility + bug fixes

For example, just within the past few years, there's been major improvements to the:

• Navigator (LibreOffice 7.0)
  
  • Move entire chapters around?
    
  • Want a chapter's word count? No problem.
    
  • See my recent post for more Navigator tricks.
    
• Gutters (LibreOffice 7.2)
  
  • Want different inner/outer margins for your books? No problem! Now you can!
    
• Tracked Changes (LibreOffice 7.3)
  
  • Need to compare 2 versions together? No problem! Much cleaner now!
    

(There's been thousands of features + bugs fixed since the OpenOffice days.)

Originally Posted by Quoth

3) Do edit in odt, but an extra Save As on docx format. Converting docx in Calibre works far better than odt.

Yes, do all your editing in ODT, then:

• Save a copy as DOCX
• + convert DOCX->EPUB using Calibre.

Calibre's DOCX->EPUB conversion is better/cleaner than ODT->EPUB.

The #1 most important thing you can learn though:

• Learn to use Styles!!!

A clean source document will mean a much cleaner converted document, saving you lots and lots of future headaches.

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If you want to learn more, see my:

• 2020: "eBook Formatting in Sigil" (Posts #46 + 50 + 52)

and, most recently, all the posts/tips/tutorials I wrote in:

• 2022: /r/LibreOffice: "LO Writer default font?"
• 2022: /r/LibreOffice: "Has anyone written a book using LibreOffice?"

(The past year, nearly every single day, I've been over in the LibreOffice subreddit writing lots of helpful tips.)

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Originally Posted by 1v4n0

And if all this makes me sound like a grumpy old guy, it's probably because I am

Stop being a curmudgeon and join us in the 21st century!

Stick with the times, old man!!!

Put down that tablet and chisel, wipe the dust off the ol' fingers, and join us in our flying cars!!!

(Okay, okay, maybe that last one was a little too far. )

Originally Posted by 1v4n0

I get this error [...] when converting the attached file from ODT to EPUB with Open Office and Writer2Epub. I know both programs are old and discontinued, but I'm used to working with them.
Anyone knows what the issue is?

Probably using tools from a billion years ago!

Seriously though, start using LibreOffice + more modern conversion methods. I promise, it's not scary.

And if you use Styles consistently... bing, bang, boom, your LibreOffice -> Ebook files will be a piece of cake.