Editing spaces between sentences in confluence
Asked by Dawnn Burrell:

I have documents that I copy and paste into confluence and I always have problems with too much spacing between sentences. How can you fix this?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: OK didn't think it was a privileged function. Because I am an admin, *and* we have the source editor plugin installed, I can see it.

[confluence-storage-format](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/confluence-storage-format-964960676.html)

So you need to ask your admin to install the source editor and add you to the list (you will need this anyway to clean up the crap Word brings in. ;-) Or bug them to do the View Storage function and send you the results. You really need to be able to see this so you know what is going on.

comments: author: Dawnn Burrell
body: Hi:

I have sent a request to our IT Support regarding Confluence-storage-format.


author: Dawnn Burrell
body: I am sorry, our Confluence version is 6.13.0 and not 6.0.6.

I did locate the View Storage Format, however, it only appears on our home page and not within any documents that I am working on.


author: Bill Bailey
body: When you are viewing a page, in the upper right, the **...** menu:

![Screenshot_2019-03-15 Speedcore ASIC Integration and Timing User Guide - User Guides - Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/48837i2D4A4194B9B1F56A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_2019-03-15 Speedcore ASIC Integration and Timing User Guide - User Guides - Confluence.png")


author: Dawnn Burrell
body: I tried your suggestion, but I don't see the "View Storage Format". Where is it within Confluence?

Thanks.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, probably the word source has extra returns between paragraphs (rather than setting the spaces in the format option). So when you paste, you are getting extra spaces due to emptly \<p\>\</p\> tags.

You can test this theory (while viewing the page, not editing), by selecting **.... -\> View Storage Format.**

If you see empty p tags, then you can just delete them in edit mode. If you don't then paste a part of the offending storage format in your reply and I can take a look.

Generally, Word source requires clean up.


author: Dawnn Burrell
body: Yes, I see your snap shot. We are server and our version is 6.0.6. I followed the clear formatting instruction, nothing changed. I tried it, but it didn't decrease the spaces between the sentences. What it did depending on which one I selected the font was decreased and not the spaces. Also, what I pasted has images within the document , but the images didn't copy in the Confluence page. Do you know why not?

Thanks much.


author: Bill Bailey
body: It may depends on which editor you have. Are you cloud or server, and if the later which version.

So you don't see this:

![Screenshot_2019-03-14 Speedster7t FPGA Configuration - Datasheets - Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/48680i62CFAE2820305B66/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_2019-03-14 Speedster7t FPGA Configuration - Datasheets - Confluence.png")


author: Dawnn Burrell
body: It is for pasted text and images.

I also looked for the Clear formatting in the editor's ribbon within "Settings" and there was no Clear formatting options, just "Disable Autocomplete" and "Disable Autoformatting".


author: Bill Bailey
body: Is this for all content in Confluence or just the pasted text?

* If the former, you need to edit the space/global CSS
* If the later, then you need to clean the text up, but highlighting all the text and then selecting **Clear formatting** in the editor ribbon. Probably best to select all the text, clear the formatting, and then reapply formatting using the editor.