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Terry Morse Myrmidon looks at the spacing between characters to decide where space
characters should be added to the Web page. Since kerning and tracking change the
character spacing, using it may result in your Web page having spaces in the wrong
places. Also, kerning forces a document to be printed one character at a time, which can
be very slow. Kerning and tracking are not supported in HTML, and nothing else will
foul up a web page conversion more than kerning or tracking. Therefore, turning off the
kerning and tracking in QuarkXPress and PageMaker is stronglyencouraged.

If you are using QuarkXPress or PageMaker, select all of the text in a document and
ensure that kerning and justification are not used. In PageMaker, you should pull down
the "Type" menu, select "Expert Tracking", then the sub-menu item "No Tracks." In
QuarkXPress, pull down the "Style" menu and select "Track..." The following dialog
appears:

QuarkXPress Tracking Dialog

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Make sure that the dialog shows the number "0".