HTML Problem, Unwanted Space When Printing

[Rafael Montserrat]

OS 10.4.9
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
it

I've had success @ ten times converting a word document to HTML and
transferring it to the description window on eBay. Now I have the problem
of making the HTML in word, but when I transfer it to eBay, I have double or
triple spaces between lines of text that should be single spaced.

I've recently gone back to eBay.

Some thing I can think of is that is
1. I selected-copied from an existing (non HTML) older eBay text, pasted
that into word, made some changes, put it back into and put it into HTML,
then selected copy and pasted into eBay. I've done that successfully many
times.
2. I have a lot of eBay text in a folder, some of which may have gone in and
out of html. But there's one I know that hasn't. Same result. There's a
substantial amount of text, but I'm considering typing a brand new one and
going through the html process and posting it again.
3. There may be a glitch in word and it may have happened when I crashed.
Of course, when I reinstalled, the Word program was left alone except for my
having to recreate some customized toolbars.

The reason I put "Unwanted Space When Printing" in the subject line, may be
something related to the above problem. This morning I typed a document in
word, then printed it. The printed document came out with one double spaced
line, making a blank space.

Thanks, Rafael

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Rafael:

When copying or pasting HTML, Word attempts to preserve the "appearance" of
the HTML. This is a very crude algorithm that suffices to keep the newbies
fat dumb and happy while pissing the rest of us off

What seems to happen is that Word sums the space above and space below
properties on the document paragraph. If they come to ten points or more,
Word inserts additional blank lines to attempt to preserve the appearance.

You need to open the result as text and have a look at the actual code to
work out what is really happening. Compare that with eBay's style sheet to
see what should happen.

Cheers

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