Ain't that the truth!

I've done a lot of HTML programming, and used a lot of different HTML editors, and they all have their quirks. Word is probably the worst HTML editor on god's good earth. If you ever want to create an uneditable, error-ridden web page, save a Word document as a "web page". There will be hundreds - or even thousands - of extraneous codes on your web page.

Most HTML editors will have a problem with a Word cut/paste because it will attempt to "fix" the bad code. Sometimes it'll seem fine until you edit it - even just deleting a single space can garble the whole thing.

Word, for example, will put seperate "font" commands on every line, making it nearly impossible to edit HTML appearance. As Judy says...cleaning the text in notepad is the best solution

I think what throws AW2K users is that they approach the item description area as if it's a clean text area. It's not. It's an interpretive HTML editor that hides it's own formatting codes. This means that if you start injecting actual HTML code into it, you have no way of knowing (or editing) it's interaction with the hidden HTML code produced by AW2K itself. AW2K will also attempt - like every other interpretive HTML editor - to "fix" the html code so it makes sense. Often this just creates a mess.

The solution is to use clean text (like from notepad) and use AW2K's built-in formatting as much as possible. This is particularly true of commands affecting appearance. The only html code I ever add to a description is a link.

Everything else should be done in the templates - which does allow for straight HTML code. The "dscription text block" is just an element that's used in the template. IMHO, it should never contain any of it's own format commands (except those created by the AW2K itself) since it is implied that the web format is done through a template.

This is why the description area has only a small number of formatting commands to begin with. It's designed that way for a reason that has to do with it's function.