Pat, I ageree completely. No way do you want to do your whole web site in inline styles but you gotta get your feet wet before you can learn to float or swim. Inline styles get your feet wet with CSS. Once you realize that you can put each repetitious in-line style into a single page style you're floating. After that it's a very short step to putting them in an external style sheet and -- you're swimming away. For grins, I've added your solution to the test page using page styles with a built in indent so folks can see how simple page styles are. http://borisbrooks.com/testpage.htm Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Geary" <patgeary@comcast.net> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com>; <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Seeking single spaced text & indenting > At 09:24 PM 12/19/2009, Jim Rickenbacker\(3\) wrote: >>CSS really is the way to go and inline styles are a good way to get your >>feet wet. > ============ > > The biggest problem with inline styles I see is when you decide it is > time to move to an external style sheet, and you have more than just > a few pages, it is gonna be hard to clean things up. > > pat