Word doc to ebook questions

Hi, I'm close to finishing the last edits on volume 1 of my 'grand epic' .
It's in Word.
At the moment it's formatted for print, but once the edits are done I want to format a copy for ebook.
I haven't used a traditional chapter structure; the book has parts (part 1, part 2, part 3 etc) each of which is divided into subsections.
At the moment I have used Heading 1 style for the Part title, and heading 2 style  for the subsection titles.
This generates a table of contents with both parts and subsections. eg:
Part 1: The Shadow Lord’s proposal                           11
Dreams.                                                                             11
The Shadow Lord's offer.                                                14
Awakening.                                                                        20
Mist.                                                                                    29
Memories.                                                                         32
The Cavern.                                                                      35
Aftermath.                                                                          38
Explanations.                                                                    40
A Chance to Dream..                                                       42
Part 2: Learning to dream..                                            49
I've been reading the guide to formatting for ebooks. It says that it will put a page break before each Heading 1 and Heading 2 but I only want page breaks before each part and not before each subsection.
So first question is - do I have to reforat all my subsection headings to be Heading 3 to stop that happening?
Next question, - I found much of the guide to be incomprehensible. Do I have to delete my table of contents that already exists? If I do that, will the converter create one to replace it and will that contain the subsection headings as well as each Part title in the toc that it creates?
Third question -  what the heck is metadata and how do I add it?

Thanks for the reply, but I don't really understand what you've written. What do you mean by merging Heading 1 and 2 using sigil?
What is Sigil?
What do you mean by 'add the metadata'? Add it where? Title and Author's name are on the first page. Do I add Lulu as the publisher here? (I'll be using their isbn so it's them not me, going by their info elsewhere.)
edit - I googled  Sigil. I'm trying to work out which bit to download and there's no Android version.
Are you saying that after the book is in ebook format I'll have to download it, open it in this other program, go through and manually remove all the page breaks that Lulu's converter will have added to it, and then re-upload it?

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    I just did a test run. It works perfectly with my images. I tried it with a JPG and I tried it with a TIFF.
    Word imported them into the document and exported the document to PDF.
    The TIFFs  were created in Lr by exporting, and they are in the Lr catalog. So Lr is not the culprit for you rproblem.
    What I sometimes forget when I edit / change a Word document is that a PDF already created has to be closed. When I don't like my PDF and just go back to Word, do some changes and export again to the same PDF, i.e. overwriting the existing PDF, then the PDF cannot be created. The PDF that needs changing must be closed before another export can happen.

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