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Originally Posted by Abenti
Figured out the hard way that .docx and .doc aren't the same (only the first two books were in .docx format).
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Not only that but there are maybe 4 incompatible .doc formats. Current MS Word can't read some of the earlier kinds.
Do edit in odt and Save As an EXTRA copy in .docx for people or programs that need it and never edit that .docx.
It's because OO and LO Writer always convert any doc or docx read and then when you save in doc or docx a second conversion is done. So when you read a doc or docx into OO or LO you have to check:
Hyperlinks to internal anchors/bookmarks.
Headings
Paragraph, character and graphic styles
Reset page format of blocks of pages (Only for PDF or paper print should more than one page style exist; for ebooks only one page style).
Inline Contents may need rebuilt
Page breaks and which headings set them
No heading or paragraph styles should have defined line spacing, so that the ebook CSS has no line-heights set anywhere.
Some or all of this needs done even for people using only MS Word because the different versions behave differently (even for docx), fonts on another computer may not have been included, Word also used metrics of default printer (turn that off in LO Wriiter).
This is why PDF was invented. Looks same & prints same everywhere unlike MS Word, but it's a delivery document, hence not meant to be edited, not meant to reflow, not meant to resize/change font, line spacing, margins etc like real ebooks.