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Old 02-16-2015, 07:39 AM
Gweilo Gweilo is offline Windows XP Office 2003
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Originally Posted by BZee View Post
I working on editing a 100+ chapter story that has been converted from a PDF to .docx. After editing I use Calibre to covert the .docx to .awz3 for reading on my Kindle Paperwhite. During conversion a Table of Contents (TOC) is generated from the chapter headings. Of the 100+ chapters some show in the TOC and some don't. If I then edit the .docx to copy a working chapter header and paste it .
I replied to your related post advising using Calibre, but I see you already are.
But you should do all your editing in Calibre, not going back and forth to Word adding layers of cruft each time

Under the "Tools" menu in Calibre you can edit the TOC to add or delete entries, but better to format the headings consistently first.

Calibre makes TOC from headings, which are styled in HTML as <H1>, <H2> etc. Those are probably being converted from Word styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) You can apply the HTML styles in Calibre using the <> button and choosing the heading level.

I normally do h1 for title page, h2 for chapter heads.
If you have "part" divisions, make those h2 and the chapters h3.
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