Blank spaces in code view

Hello,
Whenever I copy and paste text from another website -- sometimes from my own website after it goes live -- onto Dreamweaver, the text looks just fine in Design view. Fonts and paragraphs are preserved, as they're supposed to according to my preferences.
However, when I look at the code view, there are always several -- sometimes a whole lot of -- blank spaces separating words; blank spaces that were not in the original text (even in code view) and that can't be detected in Dreamweaver's design view.
It looks ok online just like it looks ok in Dreamweaver's design view, but I'm just a little concerned that those blank spaces may confuse search engine crawlers.
For instance. In design view and online, one sees:
"Great Holiday"
but in the code view/source page you'll see
"Great Holiday"
That's what the crawlers and spiders will see as well. And they may think that "Great Holiday" and "Great Holiday" are two different sets of keywords when they should be the same.
How can I ensure that only *one* blank space is allowed in Dreamweaver's code view, whenever I copy and paste text from webpages? Is there a way that I can preserve the texts' format and fonts while ensuring *one* blank space in code view?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

No, actually this is what happens:
If one of us copies text from our blog online (www.altfg.com/blog/) we see the following in Dreamweaver's design view:
Right behind Clash of the Titans, DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, and
America Ferrera, earned $3.8 million (+9.2%) domestically on Thursday,
but in code view there are blank spaces between words. Blank spaces that shouldn't be there:
<p>Right behind <em><strong><a href=
"http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/clash-of-the-titans-box-office-predictions/"
>Clash       of the Titans</a></strong></em>, DreamWorks Animation’s <em>How to   Train Your Dragon</em>, featuring     the voices of <strong>Jay Baruchel</strong>,<strong> <a href=
"http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/bradley-cooper-gerard-butler-andrew-r-jones-810/"
>Gerard       Butler</a></strong>, and <strong>America Ferrera</strong>, earned     $3.8 million (+9.2%) domestically on Thursday, </p>
Notice the blank spaces separating "featuring      the voices" or "Gerard       Butler." Those shouldn't be there. Maybe it makes no difference. On the browsers, it all looks fine. But is there a way to ensure that Dreamweaver doesn't allow more than one blank space between words in code view?
Also, *no one* has responded to my query about automatic hyperlinks for images. Any ideas?
That has been such a drag.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/613801?tstart=30
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