Pages to ePub conversion

Then I've done the right thing. Thanks for all your confirmations.

OK . . . here is a screen shot of where I am - page 2, which is the first page with the offending characters, the title page. Why can't I find the FIND FIELD in order to paste into it? Also - by chance can you see the character in this page of Calibre? There are two that refer to two JPGs next to them in the page. Here too is a screen shot of the title page we are on, importantly with characters only on this iPad screenshot in IOS. Not appearing on my laptop. You can see the characters next to the illustrations.

I was unsuccessful with Word advance find - what I see on a Mac screen is not jibing with what I'm reading, Looks like it was for Windows. I copied and pasted the series of characters and it found nothing, certainly no object replacement characters. I even harked back to a post of yours in 2019 where it was indicated to try to use Calibre to create another ePub. I downloaded the program and tried, and all I got was a basically unformatted ePub, nothing like the clean one I produced by myself from Pages. It just strikes me repeatedly that the only place I see those ORCs is on my iPhone and iPad. And, that is where I expect a reader to be reading from, in this day and age. Again, Books is not affected on my laptop. And I see tons of comments that folks are seeing those pesky things all over Facebook, X, Instagram, in all kinds of places. I may have to publish it as is and see what happens. Sorry I can't seem to make it happen.

Hey there. I found the easy way to get rid of these several blank pages in the original Word document with those curious rows. Save Word as PDF, in Wondershare PDFelement simply highlight the desired thumbnails, click delete, save as new Word document. Happy with that.

I did that upon your suggestion. Nothing happens. The fields (plus replace) were there the first time I ever opened Calibre, and when I tried it, it found nothing to replace. Then the stuff at the bottom just disappeared. And never came back with double clicking, single clicking, clicking on the multicolored verbiage, trying to scroll, expanding the the page (there is no full screen option). I am at a loss again.

Yes I did and here is the result. Nothing. In fact, screen is same as last time.