Doc to epub

[ldrover]

I have a word document that I would like to convert to epub with a table of contents. I understand that for Calibre to do this, I should save the file as a HTML file. No problem. How do I, however, create a table of contents?

[jackie_w]

An easy way to do this is to:

1. Mark your Chapters and sub-Chapters in the doc file with one of the MS built-in styles called 'Heading 1', 'Heading 2', ..., 'Heading 6'. 'Heading 1' equates to the HTML tag <h1>, 'Heading 2' to <h2> etc
   
2. Save the doc as Webpage-filtered (rather than Webpage) and import the html file into Calibre.
   
3. When you convert in Calibre you use what you did in step 1 to set the box called 'Detect chapters at' on the Convert - Structure Detection page. For example:
   • If you mark Chapters with style 'Heading 2' then set the 'Detect chapters at' box to //h:h2 This will give you a proper external metadata TOC in the converted epub.
   • A slightly more complex example...if your book has Sections and Chapters and you want a 2-level nested metadata TOC. Mark the doc Sections with style 'Heading 2' and the Chapters with style 'Heading 3'. When you convert set the 'Detect chapters at' box to //*[name()='h2' or name()='h3']
     On the Convert - TOC page set the 'Level 1 TOC' box to //h:h2 and the 'Level 2 TOC' box to //h:h3

Hope this helps

[ldrover]

Thanks for the "How To".