Formatting and Spacing

Formatting is a funny thing. When things are copied from Word, it’s kind of like “Forrest Gump” and his box of chocolate . . . you never know what you’re gonna get. It can be done – but often it’s best to just type in the items yourself.

One thing I noticed when copying over tables is that sometimes it will require a particular height such as 278 pixels (or other number). So no matter how many times you eliminate extra space – the height requirement stays the same.

As to “spaces” coming and going. Some of the paragraphs add extra space at the end of the paragraph. This often happens after changing things such as copying new text, or adding and removing line, etc. When it’s saved, the system will sometimes add in extra space for each “paragraph” (carriage return). But then when you hit edit again, it will move that extra space out and it ends up at the bottom of that section. The best thing to do in that scenario is find the absolute end (preferably outside of a table), and then hit “delete” as many times as needed to remove excess spaces. Another more accurate way is in the html itself. But if you’re not sure about html code – I would not suggest that. If you have tried to delete the extra space – and still are unable to get it removed – just let us know exactly where the problem is and we can go into the code and remove the excess paragraph spaces. They typically look something like this: After the end table tag - you’ll see several p align=left . But like I said – if you’re not comfortable with html – we can help with that.

Another "trick" when dealing with spaces is this. Let's say you enter a "carriage return" and it goes down "2 spaces". That is normal. It's a paragraph space. But in this case, you'd like there to be only "1 space" so that your next line is directly under your first line. To make that happen, just hold down your Control Key while pressing your Enter key. This should create only one space.

Sometimes you will try to add space and it won’t take. This again, is usually because of Word backend formatting issues. Often when copied, Word will give a paragraph (or sentence) a margin of “0” – so no matter how many times you hit your carriage return – the margin is still “0”. So one solution is to simply delete the entire offending section and begin typing it within the system. Another is to use an “invisible graphic” to add space where you want it. If you go into your Image Manager – under “common” – you will see a box that is the same color and the background of your webpages. Insert that box wherever you want space and change its size (using the height and width) to control just how much space you want it to become.