Conversion Demo

If you have an eBook in the Microsoft Word format, it is fairly straightforward to convert it into the EPUB format. First, use Microsoft Office Word to open your Word document (.doc) and save it as an HTML document (any file name). In "Save as", select "Web Page, Filtered (*.htm; *.html)".

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:

Title:

Author:

Category:      General Fiction Horror/Gothic Mystery/Crime Romance/Erotica Sci-Fi/Fantacy Youth/Children Short Stories     General Nonfiction

Important Guidelines

Heading Numbers

The Office Word 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: Large font.
Heading 6: Bold font.

Character Encoding

The EPUB format requires UTF-8 (unicode) encoding. Therefore, you must set the encoding to UTF-8 before saving your works as HTML documents.

• Microsoft Office Word 2007: Office Button > Word Options > Advanced > Web Options (under General) > Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8).
• Microsoft Office Word 2003: Tools > Options > General > Web Options > Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8).

Images

Do not include the cover image in your Word document. You can either upload it separately or use our system to create it automatically. Our system also lets you upload other images.

Links

Our system 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.

Table of Contents

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.