

It helps that the codes are featured in bright colours and colour-coded according to type. But with some practice, you can become adept at reading the formatting codes and deleting the ones you don’t want. If you’re not familiar with formatting “codes,” CrossEyes will seem a little foreign to you at first. Now that you’ve saved your document in a form that Sigil can read, copy and paste it from Word into the middle window in Sigil’s Book View.

Go to File, Save As, and save your file as Plain Text (.txt). Select “Other coding” and choose UTF-8 encoding (you’ll need to scroll down in the menu), Click OK. Open your book in Word (I use Word 2010).
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Here’s how to get your book from Word into Sigil: Quick Steps It’s surprisingly easy to use and if you’re at all interested in having more control over how your ebook looks, Sigil allows you to do a bit of tweaking under the hood. Sigil is a free, open-source epub editor that allows you to create an epub file that you can upload to most distributors (all but Amazon, actually). But for more complex books with headings, endnotes, pictures, and other advanced style features, there’s a better way. It’s possible to build an ebook that’s straight fiction with a tool that many writers already have: Microsoft Word. Jutoh is better supported, and it allows me to create epubs and mobis.

While Sigil is a great tool for the right price, I’ve begun to use Jutoh instead. July 24, 2016: Sigil’s newest version has a different interface from the one you’ll see in this post.
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TO WIN USERS: If RAR password doesn't work, use this archive program: RAR Expander 0.8.5 Beta 4 and extract password protected files without error. TO MAC USERS: If RAR password doesn't work, use this archive program: Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 So if you're writing or editing your ebook within Jutoh, you can easily refer to your notes or store text that doesn't yet have a place. Jutoh lets you store text, picture, and web notes together with the book content. The checkers are run within Jutoh, so you don't have to mess about with invoking the applications yourself. Jutoh installs Adobe's EpubCheck and EpubPreflight checker programs, so you can easily check your Epub book for internal errors or problems that might arise with specific readers. This is invaluable when you are distributing ebooks using different sites with slightly different requirements. Just select a different configuration and click Compile. Thanks to Jutoh's configurations, you can describe differences between versions of your book - a different cover, a different title page, different formatting - all without needing separate projects. One licence can be used on multiple operating systems simultaneously and rest assured that if you buy a different kind of desktop or laptop, you don't have to leave your way of working behind and buy new software.

Jutoh runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and various other Unix-based systems, and you can easily copy your files between machines of different kinds. Jutoh is written in C++ so runs at top speed - no frustrating delays. Fast to import your existing content, whether in text, HTML, or OpenDocument.įast to create your Epub, Mobipocket or other format.įast to edit content and switch between variations of your ebooks.
