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Originally Posted by BetterRed
DOCX->EPUB converter which requires creating a reusable mapping of the DOCX Styles to an EPUB stylesheet. I use it via a Sigil plugin (wrapper) called DOCX Input.
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I looked at that. But it seemed harder work. The Save As saving of the odt as an extra docx (never ever opened in LO Writer as that converts it!),and calibre conversion to epub2 is visually perfect. I then use the Edit Spans & Divs to change the <p to <h2 just for the class that are TOC headings, because I never use built in Heading1 etc styles and Calibre puts all the heading levels as <p class="some heading style" etc.
I can't use the built in heading levels as I may have different styles of headlng at the same level, and mysteriously sometimes conversion of built-in heading levels gives list HTML.
The other thing I have to do is manually edit the CSS for images, because LO Writer or MS Word image handling is designed only for paper/pdfs. The ebooks don't even work quite the same as webpages.
I stopped using actual MS Word a few years ago. LO 7.x and it's been good enough since version 5.x and I have two panels at the side. One is styles (All applied styles and current highlighted, or change to one double clicked) and the other is Outline/Navigator, which has all headings, links, images, bookmarks, etc and current one selected and allows jump to one double clicked.
My formatting tool bar only has: paragraph style, clear format, remove format, bold, italic, subscript, superscript (as these do little different from a character style when only used for a word or part of paragraph), UPPER CASE, lower case, Language direction. All indents, lists, etc are paragraph body styles.