Text in Dreamweaver?

I'm taking over a simple website from someone who was using
DreamWeaver.
I see that any large blocks of text on the website are
images. I was told that this is because there was a "kerning"(?)
problem when they went to type text directly into a layer. I tried
typing in a block of text in Word then copying that text and
pasting it into the layer however my sister said when she viewed
the page, there were spaces here and there that shouldn't be there
(which I didn't see on my end) and the text looked "sterile".
I would like to know what the appropriate way of displaying
large blocks of text in DreamWeaver is? I don't have a DreamWeaver
manual. Are there any suggestions for a good one?
In the past, I've only used HTML and, most of the time, I
used tables to display text. Could going this route avoid any
issues with text looking different from one computer to another?
I will have to look for the "table" function in DreamWeaver
if this is the correct way to proceed.
Thanks very much.

Yeah. But it's not microspacing....
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> Letterspacing?
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>> You can 'kern' (in a sense) in CSS, though.
>>
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>> "Michael Hager" <[email protected]>
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>>> Dreamweaver is basically an HTML processing
application. If you are
>>> familiar
>>> with HTML, then you should have no problem with
Dreamwaver. Text vcan
>>> be
>>> handled in layers (bad choice) in tables,
(better choice) or in divs
>>> (good
>>> choice) or even straight on a page with no
container (?), but VERY
>>> rarely, if
>>> ever, as images (Really bad idea)
>>>
>>> If you know HTML, you also know that fonts,
spaces and ?kerning? are
>>> functions
>>> of printing not web pages. You are pretty much
stuck with the basic
>>> fonts.
>>> Web design is not for the perfect graphic
display of fonts. Text is for
>>> information, not design.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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