Hi Alan,

Actually, you've hit on a serious issue with NVU that many people
are complaining about on their forums.  If you'd like words from
the designer's mouths, I suggest their forums are good places to
go.
  NVU has a very bad habit of reformatting the code.  I don't
think I've seen anyone say it breaks the code, but it does look
pretty odd to them at first.  The true value of NVU, IMO, is
using it as a turn-key design tool.  I don't like writing in XML
and quickly reinstalled word97 when I saw what 2002 and its
bretheren were doing.  IMO 2000 and up aren't really intended for
writing web pages; it's more of an intranet tool.  The files are
huge and contain too much personal information unless you
remember to strip them each time, plus Word refuses to let you
use hex or ascii codes without interpreting them for you, and a
host of other things I didn't like.
  Prior to NVU I used Word97, Front Page Express and NoteTAB
plus ftp to do my site work.  I was about to go for Dreamweaver
when I discovered NVU and tried it out.  I like NVU because I can
do everything I need to do in one application if I want to, from
layout to upload, but I still use my ftp client for uploads.  It
has a few bugs but the bugs are listed and advertised on the site
and in the forums, and except for the reformatting of code, they
all seem to have workarounds.  BTW, checking the "Do Not Reformat
Code" box doesn't turn it off; it does nothing for the problem.
It's a known bug.  I particularly like the way it offers to
create anchor names, target names, filenames, etc etc if you want
it to; lots less memory work.
  The only other "feature" I don't like is that it doesn't let
you mouse-select a bookmark when you link to another file; you
have to type it into the box, but that will be fixed too, and it
does keep the bookmark name onscreen most of the time, so you can
see it to copy it.
  Word 2000 and up is great, but wasn't intended for doing web
pages.

HTH,