It seems to be just one project, other projects work fine, so I don’t think it’s a java converters not present/findable problem (which I had/solved previously)
I need Word.doc because that’s what Smashwords needs.
I can export to docx.
Scrivener is up to date 3.2.3 (14869)
I was going to say I didn’t do anything different on this project, but it does have hard page breaks.
What if you compile to DOCX (which is a newer format and more understood than DOC) and then in Word resave as DOC. Take Scrivener out of Microsoft’s world.
DOC format is complicated. Best to simply stop using it. Microsoft killed (no longer default for Word) in 2007 … quite some time ago. Any “clunkiness” on them!