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Old 04-30-2017, 08:43 PM   #1
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I made a wee bit of a mistake I just loaded over 200 short fiction stubs (bits and pieces of stories) in .doc format, and only when I tried to convert one of them into EPUB did I discover they needed to be in .docx format.

Simple answer I know is to delete the lot of them, go back to the original .doc files and resave them as .docx, then reload them into calibre and convert the lot of them to EPUB.

However, I wondered if there is a simpler process, maybe installing a plugin that DOES convert .doc files - assuming there is such a thing ?
Last edited by MikeKReader; 04-30-2017 at 10:11 PM. Reason: Look before you leap :o Found the 'Doc input' plugin and will try it.
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Old 04-30-2017, 10:50 PM   #2
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Or just use the MS wordconv.exe program from the command line.

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Old 04-30-2017, 11:10 PM   #3
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IIRC there is calibre plugin that converts the DOC format, but IIRC it is windows only.
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IIRC there is calibre plugin that converts the DOC format, but IIRC it is windows only.
Yup. I found it after I posted my message. But it isn't working for me. It appears to be (maybe) creating some temporary files and directories, but not finding them when it looks for them.

I'll see if I can find how to use a command line to run Wordconv.exe directly, as per BetterRed's post.
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Yup. I found it after I posted my message. But it isn't working for me. It appears to be (maybe) creating some temporary files and directories, but not finding them when it looks for them.

I'll see if I can find how to use a command line to run Wordconv.exe directly, as per BetterRed's post.
See Dirk Vollmar's post in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...ng-doc-to-docx

When Kovid released DOCX Input I used wordconv.exe to convert a lot of old DOCs to DOCX, which I then converted EPUB.

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See Dirk Vollmar's post in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...ng-doc-to-docx

When Kovid released DOCX Input I used wordconv.exe to convert a lot of old DOCs to DOCX, which I then converted EPUB.

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I ended up opening each .doc file in Word and saving it as a .docx.
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