From fb4395a5e628d619fa4175cf1d57f8c7f66b7bed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:44:14 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst b/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst index b9092fd14d..7ced74c70d 100644 --- a/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst +++ b/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst @@ -565,7 +565,9 @@ Convert Microsoft Word documents |app| does not directly convert .doc/.docx files from Microsoft Word. However, in Word, you can save the document as HTML and then convert the resulting HTML file with |app|. When saving as HTML, be sure to use the "Save as Web Page, Filtered" option as this will produce clean HTML that will convert well. Note that Word -produces really messy HTML, converting it can take a long time, so be patient. +produces really messy HTML, converting it can take a long time, so be patient. Another alternative is to +use the free OpenOffice. Open your .doc file in OpenOffice and save it in OpenOffice's format .odt. |app| can +directly convert .odt files. There is a Word macro package that can automate the conversion of Word documents using |app|. It also makes generating the Table of Contents much simpler. It is called BookCreator and is available for free