[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi D.J.,

Word uses 'span' to equal a 'text run' (a string of text/spaces/punctuation) that shares common characteristics of formatting.

You would generally see this where you have started a new paragraph (enter key). If you're doing that for each 'line' then you
would see a span control for each 'line' in Word 2000 or higher in a .HTM file.

For example if your line of text was
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Then the basic formatting in a Word produced .htm file would be something like this:

p class=MsoNormalfont size=3 face="Times New Roman"span style='font-size: 12.0pt'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog./span/font/p

Keep in mind that the primary purpose of Word .htm files are to produce web documents that retain as much of the Word look as
possible when viewed in a web browser and to reassemble itself as a valid Word document, with no loss of Word content or format, if
the .htm document is then reopened in Word.

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"DJ" wrote in message ...
It seems any .doc files that are even just text will end up with a span in
each line.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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