I helped an ESL author with his book about Theravada Buddhism, and told him that I would convert his book to Kindle and ePub, and upload to Amazon and Smashwords, for free. Because I need the experience, and because I couldn't possibly charge him if I'm spending hours figuring out how to do it. So far, I'm stymied. I figured that the appropriate path would be to convert the Word doc to HTML, and from there go to Kindle and ePub. I thought I'd start by using Dreamweaver rather than using Save as HTML in Word. However, my antique copy of Dreamweaver (Dreamweaver 4) is refusing to open the Word 2003 doc. It seems that I can copy and paste from the doc into Dreamweaver. Should I do that? Should I preformat the work in Word, using Outline to produce various levels of headings? What should I do about the XE codes that appeared in the document AFTER I sent the finished manuscript to the author? I think that they were introduced by the Sri Lankan publisher. They look like this: { XE "awakened" /i}. Some of them lack the /i. I believe that these are codes that generate an index, yes? An ebook doesn't need an index, does it? Just searching should suffice? Yes? No? Should I just jettison all these codes, or convert them to something in HTML? What about footnotes? Insert anchors and link, right? Same for TOC, yes? Dreamweaver output, check with HTMLTidy, then process with Mobipocket Creator and Sigil? (Yes, I should have a later Dreamweaver. I maintain my zendo's website, and I'm producing it in deprecated code. However, I'm too poor to afford $400 for the latest Dreamweaver.) I'm not a complete HTML newbie, but my skills are fairly basic. I would appreciate some help from the folks here. I figured I've earned it by proofing 78,000 pages at DP. You could send me to the best site for advice, or send me a private email, or post it here, in case this would be of interest to other volunteers. Oh, and Happy New Year! -- Karen Lofstrom Zora on DP