I don't want to sound ungrateful for the responses, I appreciate it, but apparently no one has an answer to my actual question, which is, "how can I copy the entire thing, retaining the text formatting, like italics and such, but losing the page layout formatting like margins"... I know how to format for eBook myself, I just want to be able to lift my text from the original manuscript, retaining font attributes, but not the layout template. I want italics and superscripts and the like, but not headers and pagination and margins. Hard to imagine it's not possible, but I suppose that could be the case.