"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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HTML doesn't recognize spaces except for one. Put in ten and you
still get one. The &nbsp is required in HTML if you want to space
something over more than one space.

Your defense of OE is well-intentioned, but not exactly accurate. The
presence of the nbsp tags happens even when NO spaces have been specified in
the original text, or perhaps only one. They are NOT just showing up to try
to match what the user entered.

I have seen OE and Front Page add nbsp to my HTML plenty of times to know
for a fact that it's not just trying to obey my commands. It's doing it
arbitrarily.

Pete