Spaced/tabbed text rendered in HTML: Formatting maintained but try editing it!
3 Mastering formatting nuances

1 Why do I         Table formatting is the usual way of arranging multi-column material. Tables are required because

   need to use    browsers treat sequences of spaces and tabs as a single space, which destroys the space

   tables?           between spaced/tabbed columns. To maintain the visual appearance of spaces/tabs, Word inserts

                          hard spaces, which complicates the HTML coding. For example, this text is formatted in a table.

                          Formatted with spaces and tabs, the Word document looks fine, but its HTML rendition is really

                          tough to edit, especially with its embedded paragraph marks.

2 What might     Impatience with Word as an HTML editor seems to ensue with one or more of the following

   prompt me to  circumstances:

   replace Word

   as my HTML   1. Compared to others' Web pages, your pages seem to take forever to load

   editor?           2. Your pages have so many HTML-related codes that you have trouble finding the HTML tags

                              you want to change and when you find them you can't figure out how to change them to your

                              satisfaction.

                          3. You can't make your pages behave like you want them to because of the complexity of the

                               automatically-generated codes.