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Since I'm working in a .doc, what do I do? Do I modify the Converts to delete the Headers/Footers, or do I delete the Converts? Why would they regenerate when the .doc is loaded up again once deleted? That doesn't make sense.

Make copies of your document and try both. Deleting the Convert styles will also fix the margin problem, but might also make some undesired changes. Only you can determine which is better.

The Convert styles regenerate because page styles aren't stored in .doc files and Writer must have page styles to configure pages.

Since I'm working in a .doc, what do I do? Do I modify the Converts to delete the Headers/Footers, or do I delete the Converts? Why would they regenerate when the .doc is loaded up again once deleted? That doesn't make sense.

- Store your important documents in the native, International Standard ODF file formats (odt, ods...). Always work with you documents in that fileformat. And at end of the editing you can EXPORT a copy into the foreign formats.
- Try the LibreOffice: it has a higher compatibility with the foreign fileformats.

There's no way to make the document run off a page style default that's not a Convert when it opens, so it won't regenerate the Converts?

Not if you have more than one page configuration.

veraca wrote:Since I'm working in a .doc, what do I do? ...

Get MS Word if you insist on working with the Word format and want different pages to look differently, and be productive. This is just one of those things where the Word format and OO format are really incompatible.

I may have found a way to eliminate the Convert page styles. Somehow when the page breaks were entered, the "With Page Style" option became enabled. This option needs to be disabled wherever there is a page break. Starting at the beginning of the document, scroll through each page and check the page style. If the page style is a Convert style instead of the Default style, right-click the first paragraph on the page and select Paragraph. On the Text Flow tab, uncheck the "With Page Style" box under Breaks. Click OK on the Paragraph dialog and the page style should change to the Default page style. When finished fixing all the page breaks, save, close and re-open the document. The Convert styles should be gone. Since I don't use the .doc format or MS Word, I don't know if this will fix the problem when the document is opened in MS Word.

I went down to the local library and had a look at the file in Word, The library is running Windows 10 so presumably Word is an up-to-date version. It was Word 14.?? whatever that means.

I have not used Word in 7-8 years. WHAT did they do to it? It was crap before but now?

Sorry for that.

I had a look at the file and I could not see any borders. With the help of a friendly librarian who seems to dislike Word as much as I do, I managed to export to PDF and again could not see borders.

I may have missed something since Word is not user-friendly to someone like me who has had a visceral dislike of the program since my first encounter with it back in about 1987 but I really wonder what the epub people are seeing. Are they actually talking about the Word file or a translation of the Word file into the software used to produce the eBook?