Extra spaces added to place names

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Tim

When I include a place name, such as a city or state, Frontpage adds one or
two extra blank spaces after it. Usually, but not always, when I go back and
manually delete them, they disappear when the page appears online. Do I have
a setting wrong?
 
Browsers will only display a single space no matter how many *you* see in
Design or Code view.
 
Thanks, Murray. Unfortunately, these spaces actually appear on the published
page. If it would help to clarify, I could search my site for some I haven't
caught - or even reproduce the problem by creating a new page.
 
Can you provide a link to a page that has this specific issue?

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Thomas

I have fixed a lot of the instances. I found a page that still has some,
but it is a large page and I hate to aske you to search for them. I'll try
two approaches. First, tonight I will compose and publish a small page that
should have a number of instances - some times I get two extra spaces.

Second I'll post a link to that page I found. It seems to be on a proper
noun or place name, an extra space is inserted next to a parenthesis, coma or
apostrophe. There are a number of instances I didn't catch on this page for
the name Richardson and at least once for the town of Newton.
http://www.shadysidelantern.com/shadyside's sisters.htm

Thanks for your interest.
 
Copy / Pasting from Word maybe?

Weird stuff there like:

</st1:place>
.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>This may be a harsh
description, but the church's appearance is quite uncharacteristic of
<st1:City w:st="on">
<st1:place w:st="on">
Richardson</st1:place>
</st1:City>

Have no idea what st1:place is.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
Rob

I think you hit on the problem. Here is the test page I composed tonight:
http://www.shadysidelantern.com/test page.htm

Direct entry or copying from another Design View page did not produce the
problem. However, I mark in red the section I copied from a Word document -
and the extra spaces appear.

I don't know why this should be the case. But I remember my boss's advice:
I'd like to what and why - but if I have to make a choice, I'll choose
"what." Now I know a way to avoid the problem.

Thanks for the tip!!
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Tim


Rob Giordano said:
Copy / Pasting from Word maybe?

Weird stuff there like:

</st1:place>
.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This may be a harsh
description, but the church's appearance is quite uncharacteristic of
<st1:City w:st="on">
<st1:place w:st="on">
Richardson</st1:place>
</st1:City>

Have no idea what st1:place is.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
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If you're copy/pasting from Word you want to strip the Word formatting,
either by pasting into Notepad first, then copy/paste that into FP or Edit |
Paste Special and dump Word's formatting and format in FP.

Also, avoid naming files and folders with spaces (the spaces will appear as
%20) this will break links in some browsers...use a - or _ instead.

yer welcome.





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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
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