Convert Microsoft Word document to Ebook

[@unstoppablezone4980]

Very useful...this is the first time someone showed me how to use an html version and Calibre...thank you.

[@virginiabotha5108]

Just finished creating my first e-book in Calibre. Thank you Amir for you fabulous, easy-to-use video :)

[@brandnewteez2826]

This is an excellent guide on how much simpler this entire eBook/MOBI creation process can be by just using Calibre. Many thanks Amir, it's helped tremendously!

[@dblanks1]

Excellent video Amir! I followed this step-by-step to get my very 1st eBook up and running. Thank you!!

[@robindisney7632]

Many thanks Amir, you made what Amazon made so complicated, so simple and easy to understand. You have helped me no end. Please keep up the good work

[@clintonkim5075]

Thank you so much! Right to the point -no wasting of time! It's like step 1,2,3,4~~ Thanks again!

[@elainetaylor6670]

Hi Amir, very informative and useful. I have been using Calibre for a number of years and was a little confused by some of the settings until I watched this video, thank you.

[@randall1fc616]

Straight forward and concise. Great job, Amir !

[@katharinerose25]

Wow! Thanks Amir for a really thorough tutorial! Just what I needed...awesome.

[@nicoleanderson1960]

Thank you. This was very helpful. So I would do this process twice to be able to have a format (MOBI or AZW3) that Kindle accepts as well, correct? I really appreciate your clear and simplistic way of demonstrating this.

[@AmirParmar]

Nicole Williamson Yes, you will have to make 2 different file one for Epub and another for Mobi for Kindle readers.

[@boydhanel9467]

Thanks, seems simple enough. What if I already have an index in my word doc, can it import that?

[@bugsandbrushes]

Thank you very much for taking the time to help us out! Best wishes and have an awesometacular day :)

[@billscott3603]

Got me going in just a few minutes. Thanks, Amir.

[@Raxxer1993Q8]

Thank you so much for this detail and straight-to-the-point tutorial, brother. Liked and subscribed.

[@hazelkersellius9889]

Let's say you use a heading and subheading with Heading 1 for the chapters and heading 2, for the individual poem titles let's say can you have heading 2 be a hyperlink within the Kindle e-book?

[@NnaemekaAmamasi]

well done Amir...keep up the great work!!!

[@funny11744]

Hi. Some publishers ask EPUB 3 . What version of EPUB file generates Calibre ?

[@PoliteTia]

As usual, Amir you are outstanding!

[@AmirParmar]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful.

[@gbhinckleysacay5926]

Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurfaceFormat ... What should i do

[@anandamargakorea4656]

Great video Amir, thanks so much. If my cover is in .jpeg and I want to convert using Calibre do I save it as an html doc first?

[@AmirParmar]

The cover can stay as jpeg

[@fltx3687]

Great video! will that conversion be valid for a picture book as well?

[@AmirParmar]

+FL TX Ya it should be, make sure to keep the word format, I had mentioned to convert but looks like it work with .doc and maybe even .docx

[@fltx3687]

+Amir Parmar I will give it a try, thank you Amir!

[@fltx3687]

+FL TX I forgot to ask, is it ok to save my .odt document to .doc document(my original file was written in LibreOffice) and then do the conversion to ebook?Thanks again

[@AmirParmar]

+FL TX I have never worked with .odt document. You will have to test with the .odt and see what happens and also convert it to .doc and see which version looks better. All the best.

[@fltx3687]

+Amir Parmar Thank you so much Amir for taking the time to respond! I will have to test with .odt and .doc. I will come back to your video and share the results if it works!

[@jacquelinefarrell3830]

Thank you - you made this very easy and I was dreading doing it

[@shiilabhadrananda]

Amir I have another question please-do I need to have a back cover for my ebook? How can I attach it to my master ebook file if I want to convert using Calibre?

[@AmirParmar]

I thought I had replied to your comment few days ago, not sure where it went. Technically, you don't need a back cover for ebooks, as it is only needed for printed books, as it can be used to advertise. In an ebook the last page will be the back cover.

[@chefalbaiscooking8273]

Do you know how I would add pictures to each recipe/each page.. writing a cookbook

[@AmirParmar]

+Alba Carbonaro Johnson In Microsoft Word add your pictures where you want, just the way it is done in any MS word document. Test it out with a few recipe and see how it looks after the conversion.

[@lindaokafor93]

Thanks a lot Amir, you've really made my work easier

[@ImpowerYou]

Thank you. I needed help with my table of contents links.

[@caitlineglen]

Hi! Is there a way to add hyperlinks? I'm assuming so since the table of contents works. Also, is there a way to add a button to the page that the reader can click "done" when they've completed an exercise? Thank you! :)

[@AmirParmar]

You are right about Hyperlinks, they are easy to add. Buttons I am not sure. I did a quick search; and Adobe InDesign software has that feature. Not sure if that can be incorporated easily in Microsoft Word. will need to look into this. via HTML or CSS the buttons can surely be added, but will need some coding.

[@caitlineglen]

Ok great, thank you! :)

[@AUZohaib]

i am new in kindle formatting, when ever i am converting my ms word file into mobi via Calibre software ebook fonts size, spacing, indention, table of content turn into mess or in undesirable shape. how can i convert ms word file into mobi without losing formatting that save into ms word file.

[@PrisonPlanett]

Anyway I can get this done on my redmi 9 phone.. android system. Doesn't word document allow you to change to . EPUB?

[@AmirParmar]

word file can be used in Calibre

[@QueenIssabellaFontane]

i thought i would let you know i tried this program by just putting in my document with my bookmarks already formatted from word. I left all of my formatting in. i saved it as a webpage. then i opened it in Calibre. After i converted it everything was perfect. Just as it was formatted in my word doc. I was so please. so you dont have to unformat your word doc and save it is a webpage. you can leave the formatting in and it still does the job. great video still thank you.

[@AmirParmar]

Alexandria CM Thanks, I will try to leave a note about it. The new updates might have made it easier.

[@amintiridinrsr]

+Amir Parmar you misunderstood what she said. She also saved the document first as webpage before importing into calibre...

[@AmirParmar]

+amintiridinrsr Thanks for the correction, I have made the changes in my notes in the video.

[@llee1002]

Your video was very informative...Thanks for sharing!

[@milosarsic9075]

Great Video clip! Apologies for butting in, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you tried - Tarbbatigan ebook master Tip (do a search on google)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to create an ebook minus the normal expense. Ive heard some decent things about it and my buddy got cool success with it.

[@TamalynScott]

Thank you Amir! Beautiful job!

[@franciscampagna2711]

Thank you very much. A very useful tutorial.

[@andrepereira5785]

Hello everyone! Can you please tell me how to change a text in the Table of Contents? For instance, I want the title to show as "Title Page" and not the title itself! I am getting crazy with this TC Field options and I am never able to do it...hope you can help. Best regards, André

[@AmirParmar]

André Pereira The table of Contents is created from the Chapter title, where you applied the Heading 1 style or Heading 2 for sub chapter topic. So go to that title in the document and change the title. I hope I understood your question correctly, let me know

[@gazzerbot385]

Does this work with Mac and MacWord? And can I also have text boxes and images?

[@AmirParmar]

The software is available for Mac, so it will work. You can add Text boxes and images and save it as a Doc file and use Calibre to convert the doc to epub.

[@gazzerbot385]

Thanks. Will check it out.

[@evilvolts]

I have years of Poetry in notebooks at home that I have been saving as saved Notepad in my documents they aren't in word so how would I use these to create an ebook?

[@AmirParmar]

+Donald Kirby Von Koehler you copy and paste the Poetry in Microsoft Word. Now highlight the Poem title and apply a Heading style, go to the end of the Poem, put the cursor at the end and add a Page Break. Go to Page Layout look for Breaks and use the "next page." This will put the next Poem on its own page. Continue apply the Heading style and putting breaks. If you don't want new poems on new page, don't apply the breaks. Make sure to Save your work :)

[@evilvolts]

thank you that's what I ended up doing

[@funkyfreshEazyO]

can I save the file outside of calibre? Is there an option out there where I don't need to download software to convert it to an ebook? I can't download software on to my work computer.

[@AmirParmar]

can't you convert the file on home pc or personal laptop? there might be an option to convert files to epub, have not looked into it.

[@hi2rashid]

Good Video. But you should have added how to create table of contents and Hyperlink it through Bookmark in microsoft Word.

[@AmirParmar]

abdul rashid Hi Adbul, I did create a video on table of contents and bookmark, so i did not create that topic in this video. Here is the playlist to the Word 2013 tutorials, parts 6 & 7 have bookmark and Table of contents, index, bibliography topics. kzbin.info/aero/PLcmYWY91gQNeGHXKZG7Vvw8pW9p2MsIuU

[@cofies200k]

Hello Amir, this is such awesome info. I made it through but how can I acquire the link to post on Facebook and in emails?

[@AmirParmar]

Hi, if you want to share the ebook freely with people, then, go to Google Drive (drive.google.com) and use the Upload button to upload the file, you will see a "Share" button, click it and choose the option "Anyone with the link." Now copy the link and email or post it on Facebook.

[@cofies200k]

I apologize. I'm a little older and maybe a little slower. but I've been trying to get this to work and now it is not opening like a book. It's opening one file at a time and separating the artwork from the text.

[@AmirParmar]

Did you have everything in one Microsoft Word file? and also make sure the pictures have proper "Wrap Text" around your text. There is also an option Anchor your pictures.

[@AmirParmar]

you may nee to email me and I can ask you to send me your File. Will be going to sleep now, so can get back to you tomorrow.

[@cofies200k]

thanks photos have text wrap tight. Text was created in Word. Cover, table of contents were done in Canva then added to word.

[@ladykondo9246]

Thank you so much! Clear and very helpful!

[@AshrafEzzat]

Thank you, that was an informative tutorial.

[@trtambunan964]

Ok

[@jaksoni100]

Sir I making E book in hindi font using this software. But after converting epub format Hindi language font convert in English. What should I do.

[@financelife7211]

Thanks, how do I price it?

[@AmirParmar]

I am not sure about price! check amazon for similar books (pages) and see $9.99 seems standard for normal size books.

[@PrisonPlanett]

Isn't EPUB used by kindle?

[@AmirParmar]

Kindle uses mobi and az3 something

[@luvshiei]

This saved me- thank you so much!

[@BagpackTraveler]

when i save it as a webpage the characters i made in my comic book using diff. shapes get scattered.How to fix dem?

[@AmirParmar]

don't save it as webpage, you don't need to do that. save it as .doc or .docx and it will work.

[@BagpackTraveler]

yes i did that only at first.But when i submitted my kindle book the characters in it became scattered!

[@AmirParmar]

so when you convert it in calibre, the characters are getting scattered? where did you submit it and what format are you converting it in?

[@BagpackTraveler]

I submitted my book in .doc form but when I previewed my book in Kindle all the character edits were scattered.

[@AmirParmar]

so you add the book to Calibre; what format did you choose to convert it to? what ebook format did you choose to convert to?

[@learnchinesehuajielanguage]

Very good. Very clear. Thank you.

[@trtambunan964]

Error

[@uberholmes]

Thank you Amir, that's brilliant!

[@Savoy3921]

Amir, the indentation in my word file is not converting to kindle. I have tried everything. When I use the ruler, all of the text moves to the left. I was hoping calibre would help. Do you have any suggestions?

[@AmirParmar]

I found this info from Calibre Help, there is a way to add Indentation via CSS, you, here is the code: p { text-indent: 5mm; } manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html (go to extra CSS section)

[@AmirParmar]

Emailed you.

[@okchypno-renaecerquitella7188]

Great info!!! Thank you!

[@megana3016]

So helpful! Thanks!!!!

[@sunildingankar3369]

Hi Amit, I am trying to create an ebook in Marathi. Creating it on mac. The problem I am facing is. The unicode font I am using is readable on Mac devices but not readable on android. Can u suggest something?

[@AmirParmar]

***** Hi Sunil, I have not had a chance to test out non-english character ebook? What format are you converting the ebook, epub or mobi? Are they both acting up? Can you create the original source in HTML and than try the ebook conversion. Let me know, I found this info from Calibre's faq, not sure if this will help manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#id14 There are two aspects to this problem: Knowing the encoding of the source file: calibre tries to guess what character encoding your source files use, but often, this is impossible, so you need to tell it what encoding to use. This can be done in the GUI via the Input character encoding field in the Look & Feel section. The command-line tools all have an --input-encoding option. When adding HTML files to calibre, you may need to tell calibre what encoding the files are in. To do this go to Preferences->Plugins->File Type plugins and customize the HTML2Zip plugin, telling it what encoding your HTML files are in. Now when you add HTML files to calibre they will be correctly processed. HTML files from different sources often have different encodings, so you may have to change this setting repeatedly. A common encoding for many files from the web is cp1252 and I would suggest you try that first. Note that when converting HTML files, leave the input encoding setting mentioned above blank. This is because the HTML2ZIP plugin automatically converts the HTML files to a standard encoding (utf-8).

[@nixonmiyoba6289]

useful i hope. looks so easy.... will give it a shot. waiting for calibre to download

[@jain0345671]

Thank you very very much, it is really helpful, i'm thankful to watch this. :)

[@MounikaMeduri]

Thank you.. A very helpful video..

[@snowman.story2024]

Very useful, thanks a lot!

[@chandnipanday5034]

Sir thank you so much for making this video

[@KINGLIFERISM]

If anyone gets errors in Calibre try saving your word document in Web Page, Filtered (*.htm; *.html) and MAYBE that would fix the issue.

[@mihaimarius6355]

awesome, brother! thank you!

[@Beyourselfandletstalk]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate this information

[@BARTALKWITHOLA]

Really great! Thank you!

[@Fiondra]

How do you delete an ebook in calibre that you messed up?

[@AmirParmar]

You need to go to the Calibre Library folder and delete it from there. The folder might be in the C drive or in My Documents. You can also try Right Clicking and choose "Remove books" and "Remove Selected Books"

[@Fiondra]

that helped, thank you so much! When I converted my book over, all the pages got reformatted. Some pieces were moved around or cut off and pushed to subsequent pages...do you know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? I just want it to look like how I have it in my word document

[@AmirParmar]

Have you used Breaks between pages or chapters? At the end of a chapter, it is best to add a "Next page" break. So that way, a new chapter always starts on a new page. The breaks are in Page Layout - breaks - Next page. And if you there are breaks in between chapters, where the sections are being cut out to next page, see if there is a break already set there. To see breaks, turn on the Show/Hide button.

[@nelyemiliani3989]

Mr. Amir, terrific, Video. You guide me well with your TUTORIAL.... I want to sell my book under E-book myself. This video is a good guide for us authors who want to do it on our own. Thank you so much. Now I need to make a website and and a blog, that I can sell it on my own. Thank you so much. Can you help me with that?

[@AmirParmar]

sure. do you want to create a website with your own domain or a free sub-domain? Even if you get your own domain that costs around $15/a year, so you can use some of the free services to create website. Google Blogspot, Wordpress.com are examples. On this playlist, watch the videos on Wordrpess and Blogspot kzbin.info/aero/PLcmYWY91gQNdHYFEm8mfwJXV0ylnpXCxW You can contact me from my business website if you have questions. simpletek.ca/contact-us/

[@Lumary]

Awesome, thank you, this helped a lot! :-)

[@lindaokafor93]

I worked on it but discovered my phone can't access it. Where did I get it wrong

[@algengould2964]

Thanks, very helpful indeed

[@stevenobinator2229]

thank you and well done

[@yogaaerobicsparamaanand534]

How to make all ebooks in canva not to be lost after formatting

[@shamshadahaleem7263]

I only get the front page not rest

[@linzisshortsweetreviews3811]

Brilliant, Thanks :)

[@rohitkumar98153]

Love you 3000

[@JazzComedian79]

very helpful thanks heaps!

[@fawziabegum5675]

Thank you very much.

[@mymixchannel369]

Now all my word files opens in html format which I’m not willing to be

[@williampoynter7671]

I'm about to try this and I hope it works.

[@AmirParmar]

+William Poynter I hope it worked.

[@yogaaerobicsparamaanand534]

I lost all ebooks when my computer is foatted ,solution?

[@prayerbypainting]

thank you!

[@dheerajmamak5585]

getting error while converting

[@bilgehanarat5825]

thanks

[@UdaySharma-eq9nw]

Thanks

[@cbzombiequeen58]

I tried this software, it creates extra pages. In case 8 did something wrong, i had a publisher create the file, and i put it into this software, and it still created extra pages when it went to epub. Now mobi was fine, i never had a problem with mobi, but epub, no way.

[@AmirParmar]

Did you create your file in Ms Word?

[@mymixchannel369]

Someone tell me how to bring back my word to it previous look , this video messed my all formats😡

[@mymixchannel369]

Sucks , messed all my word files to html

[@TheMister123]

FYI, it's pronounced "CAL-ih-burr", not "cal-EE-bray".

[@AmirParmar]

TheMister123 Thanks for the correction. Will try to make a note at the start of the video.

[@shiilabhadrananda]

Amir I have another question please-do I need to have a back cover for my ebook? How can I attach it to my master ebook file if I want to convert using Calibre?

[@AmirParmar]

Most ebooks will not have back cover. Only in physical books back covers are needed, as they can be used to get people's attention when displayed.

[@AmirParmar]

And technically back cover in ebook will be the last page of the book.

[@glorialynn6478]

Thank you! Great video