document template for new ebooks

[wjBLqf-_9]

Greetings!

At the moment I am using a DOTX word document template to copy+paste articles / stories into.

I am not a genius expert about Microsoft Word or Word Document template files... maybe there is a special sauce to make this work?

My problem is getting the critical Tags (i.e. 'document properties') passed to Calibre when I add the DOCX file.

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Through Trial-n-Error I have determined the following translation between Word Document Properties and Calibre Fields"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Title" = Calibre Field "Title"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Author" = Calibre Field "Author"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Company" = Calibre Field "Publisher"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Tags" = Calibre Field "Tags"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Comments" = Calibre Field "Description"
-Word Document Property "????" = Calibre Field "Series"
-Word Document Property "????" = Calibre Field "Series_Index"
-Word Document Property "????" = Calibre Field "ID" (for me all ID's are "url:https://path.to.source/destination.html")
-Word Document Property "????" = Calibre Field "Genre"
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Spoiler:

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I am able to 'eASILY' add the following document propertires in the main document text portion of the DOTX file... and these field seasily pass into Calibre:
-Word Document Standardized Property "Title" = Calibre Field "Title"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Author" = Calibre Field "Author"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Company" = Calibre Field "Publisher"

('eASILY' = I can pick the Word Document property and make it a grey highlighted text input field in the document text portion of the DOTX document)
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I am able to 'nOT-eASILY' get the following tag fields into word document properties.... in an approach that is conducive to import into Calibre
-Word Document Standardized Property "Tags" = Calibre Field "Tags"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Comments" = Calibre Field "Description"


('nOT-eASILY' = I cannot pick the Word Document property and make it a grey highlighted text input field in the document text portion of the DOTX document... it is inconvenient to have to click "file" and edit properties there.)
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Is there anyway to create a DOTX template to'eASILY' (^above^) type in the following word document standardized property fields so the DOCX import process also passes the following fields into calibre?
-Word Document Standardized Property "Tags" = Calibre Field "Tags"
-Word Document Standardized Property "Comments" = Calibre Field "Description"


Does Calibre support "Custom" DOCX property fields?
-Word Document Custom Property "CalibreFieldSeries" = Calibre Field "Series"
-Word Document Custom Property "CalibreFieldSeriesIndex" = Calibre Field "Series_Index"
-Word Document Custom Property "CalibreFieldID" = Calibre Field "ID" (for me all ID's are "url:https://path.to.source/destination.html")
-Word Document Custom Property "CalibreFieldGenre" = Calibre Field "Genre"

[kovidgoyal]

Word has no support for series and similar calibre specific fields so there wont be dedicated UI for it you can use.

[Quoth]

I edit in odt format in LO Writer and Save As an EXTRA docx for Calibre
Importing the docx to Calibre gives

-LO Writer Properties "Title" = Calibre Field "Title"
-LO Writer Options | User Data "First/last name/initials" = Calibre Field "Author"
-LO Writer Options | User Data "Company" = Calibre Field "Publisher"
-LO Writer Properties "Keywords" = Calibre Field "Tags"
-LO Writer Properties "Comments" = Calibre Field "Description"
-LO Writer Properties "????" = Calibre Field "Series"
-LO Writer Properties "????" = Calibre Field "Series_Index"
-LO Writer Properties "Subject" = Calibre Field "Tags"

Document Language seems to go to Calibre Language
Date is date first imported or record without formats created.

LO Writer Options | User Data [./] Use data for document properties

No need for Calibre Field "ID"
I'd put Series and Series_Index in the Comments and then after import Copy/paste those in the Metadata editor.

I don't see a Calibre Field "Genre"?
Subject and Keywords seem to be alphabetically sorted and combined to Tags.
Publish date is edited from a spreadsheet, if applicable.
I have a separate custom Collections column used for Sony and Kobo ereaders that is manually entered.