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Advanced Notebook -> Export as text, HTML or Word docx to local storage or dropbox. Copy via USB or dropbox to Word or LO Writer.

You can only import Advanced notebooks from other Kobos. You can't import Word docs.

I don't use the stylus at all to highlight and make notes of doc created on PC. I add the Word docx to Calibre and make an epub2 and send that via USB to the Kobo (any Kobo).

I proof read the epub, making notes using the text keyboard. I copy those back using Kobo Utilities (highlight, note, chapter, % in books etc) and paste into a text editor open beside the Word Document (though I use LO Writer and save in odt, with an extra last Save As in docx for Calibre.

Been doing this for years on Kobos and before that on the Kindle using azw3 converted from epub2.

The ONLY sensible way to read and edit an actual word document is in Word or LO Writer on Linux, Mac or Windows.

But my final product is an ebook. I've not used paper for years.

I got the Elipsa to make notes separately and also to simply mark errors on PDFs for POD. The PDFs direct export from a reformated copy of the document proofed as an epub. So the ONLY issue is styles/formatting/layout, never ever the content.

I quickly realised that the Sage would be better for notes and now ONLY use the Elipsa for POD version as PDF when the epub has been 100% proofed. Always one more proof read if any edit.

No note taking device will markup word documents directly. The Kindle Scribe needs the document (PDF) sent to Amazon and then downloaded as a KFX. Then you send that and get an email of a PDF. Or something, I lost interest at the "You send the original PDF to Amazon".

The handwriting, shape, maths & checkbox recognition to produce an editable word document export on the Elipsa or Sage is now brilliant. But the Sage is handier to proof epubs (with touch screen keyboard, though BT keyboard sort of works) and for creating the separate Advanced Notebooks. The Elipsa is a more natural size to proof purely the layout etc of PDFs for POD, where the content already proofed to death as an epub2 on the Sage.