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Your word processor can apply various formattings (styles) to selected texts. One of them is Heading, which is very important for making a structured ebook. You should use proper Heading numbers to format the headings of parts, chapters, or sections in your book. Suppose your book contains three levels: parts, chapters and sections, you should use Heading 1 for the headings of parts, Heading 2 for chapter headings and Heading 3 for section headings (example). If your book has only one level (say, chapters) you should use the same Heading number for all chapter headings.
When the HTML file is uploaded, our system will immediately separate it into several smaller files based on Heading 1, Heading 2 and Heading 3. Everything before the first heading will be ignored. If your work is short (without chapters or parts) you do not need to use any headings.
Headings 4 to 6 will not be separated into individual web pages, but they will be displayed as headlines in a page, with the following default settings:
Heading 4: Large bold font in green color.
Heading 5: Medium bold font, centered.
Heading 6: Large, bold font in green color, centered.
The EPUB format requires UTF-8 (unicode) encoding. Therefore, you must set the encoding to UTF-8 before saving your works as HTML documents.
Do not include a cover image in your Word document. You can either create the cover image automatically or upload it separately. If your eBook contains images other than the cover image, Microsoft Office Word works better than other word processors in converting Word to HTML.
Our tool can handle links to pages on the internet (such as "http://www.google.com"), but internal links (such as "#destination") may fail. This is because the uploaded file will be separated into several pages and the destination may be located in a different page.
There is no need to include Table of Contents in your Word documents. Our system will automatically generate it based on headings. Heading 1, 2 and 3 will be shown in the Table of Contents, but Headings 4 to 6 will not.
If you have an eBook in the Microsoft Word format, it is fairly straightforward to convert it into the EPUB format. First, use one of the following word processors to open your Word document (.doc) and save it as an HTML document (any file name).
Please also follow the "Important Guidelines" below to prepare your Word document and save it as an HTML document. Then you can upload the HTML document to test our conversion tool. When you are ready, submit the following information:
Can I copy content of HTML documents into MS Office Word?
Yes! You may copy HTML content (such as Wikipedia articles) into MS Office Word
which can preserve most formattings, including images. Mathematical equations
in Wikipedia can also be preserved because they have been rendered as images.
Can I upload HTML documents produced by HTML editors?
You can try. For best results, please use heading tags <h1>, <h2>
and <h3> only for the structure of your book (parts, chapters and sections),
rather than making font size larger. Headings within these tags will be
included in the Table of Contents. Use <h4>, <h5> or <h6> for
headlines which will not be shown in the Table of Contents. Be sure to use
UTF-8 encoding and include this information in the META tag, such as: <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">.
Please also refer to the default style sheet which is linked to all
separated HTML files.
What formattings does your system preserve after conversion?
Our system perserves headings, bold, italic, align, links, images and one-level
list. If any formatting is missing, you can use our HTML editor to edit the
converted files.