# Formatted text?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatted-text/69223
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 2, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatted-text/69223 "2004-11-02T16:08:07Z")
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### Author: ![rjm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@rjm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rjm)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatted-text/69223/1 "2004-11-02T16:08:07Z")

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Ive been loading external text into flash, with the verdanna font at 10px. For some odd reason, the text has spaces where it shouldnt have spaces.

ie. we h ad an exce lle nt da y.

This is really frustrating me, does anyone know how to fix this?