# Frontpage Spacing Problem
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 23, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643 "2002-03-23T00:55:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/1 "2002-03-23T00:55:47Z")
Hopefully this isnt a double post, but I tried to post this a minute ago and it didnt seem to go.
I use Frontpage to make my website ( [www.ptclan.00server.com](http://www.ptclan.00server.com) ) . A friend and I collaborate on it. He doesn’t have Frontpage, so when he sends me stuff its typed in Word, then he Instant Messages it to me, then I copy and paste it into Frontpage. The problem is, his stuff is usually single spaced, which is fine. I need it that way. But then when I try to add my own stuff to the same page, try as I might I cannot get it to actually be (vertically) single spaced. It reports the text that I type as being single spaced, but clearly it isnt. The only way I can get it to space itself correctly is to hold down space bar until it starts a new line. This makes it difficult to play with fonts and sizes, since every time I have to readjust it.
Any advice?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/2 "2002-03-23T02:38:06Z")
I am a little confused by what problem it is that you’re having… When you say single spaced, do you mean…
this
this
?
I’m not extremely familiar with FrontPage, but I have used Dreamweaver a lot… if you’re having problems getting FrontPage to do what you want it to, I would recommend learning alittle bit of HTML, so you can edit whatever you need to in notepad…
LilShieste
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/3 "2002-03-23T02:52:00Z")
Yeah, single spaced as in:
“blah blah blah” Then hit enter
“blah blah blah”
The problem is, when I hit enter the next line is still far a large distance below the last line, but it doenst acknowlege that that space exists.
in other words:
“Blah blah blah” hit enter (making sure it’s set to single space)
“blah blah blah”
I’m having trouble clearly expressing this problem, but hopefully someone will realize what I mean from their own experience.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/4 "2002-03-23T02:58:17Z")
When you hit enter at the end of a line, it puts in a paragraph tag. That adds an extra vertical space.
Either let the lines run together without hitting Enter, or, if you want to force a break, hit SHIFT/ENTER.
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/5 "2002-03-23T03:01:02Z")
Many thanks, **RealityChuck**!
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/6 "2002-03-23T03:24:56Z")
Crap, now I have another problem. I went to do that to one of my pages, and when I opened it the font had changed from the last time. When I select all the text it won’t give me the option of picking my old font, what gives?
And, is dreamweaver easy to use?
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/7 "2002-03-23T03:25:24Z")
if you are hand-coding it is the \<\*\*br /\> tag, though you don’t strictly need the /\> and you can just use \<\*\*br\>.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/8 "2002-03-23T03:28:16Z")
Dreamweaver is AWESOME. Most everyone I know that codes with WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver over Frontpage.
Dunno about your font problems, though.
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### Author:  [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/9 "2002-03-23T06:12:14Z")
I’d say a bigger problem is all those g-d pop ups !
Sorry, I thought I’d check out the site, but my right-click button isnt working so well so its hard to kill those buggers…
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/10 "2002-03-23T06:20:25Z")
I use FrontPage exclusively for all my web design projects, you do still need to learn to dink with HTML. ( I am a webdesigner but focus more on graphics than HTML crap. )
However, your best bet is to have your friend send stuff over to you in NotePad – seriously. Word can really screw things up especially if you are using Word 2000 or later. I even use NotePad for when I am copying a recipe from websites, it eliminates all the garbage.
Just do a copy and paste from NotePad and mess with it from there, you can easily highlight fonts and change them as you need.
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### Author:  [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/11 "2002-03-23T07:23:41Z")
Sorry about the possible hijack here but i figured while there were a bunch of powerpoint users around I’d ask. Question is when i lay something out on the page and then go to preview it the alignment is all off. then when i save it as a page and open it in a browser the alignment will be even more messed up. Is there some option im not turning on/off or something?? please help…thanks
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontpage-spacing-problem/99643/12 "2002-03-24T15:02:24Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Lockfist \*
> \*\*I’d say a bigger problem is all those g-d pop ups !
>
> Sorry, I thought I’d check out the site, but my right-click button isnt working so well so its hard to kill those buggers… \*\*
Sorry, they bother me too but I didn’t put them there. I use free webspace provided by [00server.com](http://00server.com), and they put em up.