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Microsoft and ePub

Anonymous
2013-08-08T11:03:20+00:00

Hello

I would love to know if Microsoft's Office Desktop Publishing Suite will ever support and integrate ePub/ePub3. Sincerely, I have tried using Adobe Indesign but I end up with a throbbing forehead, QuarkXpress is not that different. An office ePub maker from the scratch or integrated with Microsoft Office will really be a game changer for making PROFESSIONAL ebooks in the ePub format especially. Microsoft, please.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-16T19:14:28+00:00

    I've been working on a book for some time now and its getting close to completion.  I was on old time XPress user but ran out of funding to support that habit so have converted over to Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word.  I tend to write in Word and then bring it into Publisher for layout. 

    So My desire is to have a final epub version but as we all know Microsoft does not support it yet.  It reminds me of the early days of PDF's.  In any even I would like to cast my vote to have publisher have a EPUB save version so that I do not need to run the book through a 3rd party converter.  Thanks for listening.

    Gregg Webster

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-01-14T04:51:54+00:00

    I respond to dozens of questions a day using IE 11, most of the time without problems.  Every now and then however a response will temporarily not be accepted and I believe that to be as a result of problems on the particular server to which I am trying to post, rather than with the browser that I am using.

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  3. Jay Freedman 207.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-01-11T18:10:57+00:00

    Whether or not Microsoft ever adds e-book output to Office, you can use a free (donation-supported) program called Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert .docx files to many e-book formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, and others.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-08-15T22:22:37+00:00

    Thank you so much. I will hope that something good will come out of it.

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  5. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-08-15T13:32:33+00:00

    I've forwarded the suggestion to the product team.

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