[bug] Word export of styled row vs. styled text

[Mitchell L Model]

In exports to "Word (HTML)" text formatting styles (for instance, I 
have one for Code that uses a monospaced font) applied to part of a 
row's text are specified using <span class="...">.  That's wonderful, 
since it preserves the logical connotation of the style, and I can 
reformat the style however I want in the HTML by changing its CSS 
specification for the style.  However, if you apply a style to the 
entire text in the first column of a row, either by selecting the 
whole row and applying the style, or editing the text in the first 
colum, selecting all of the text, and applying the style, what gets 
exported is a span that specifies the style details rather than a 
class.  [This is easily reproduced by first selecting all the text 
and exporting, then selecting all but the last character and 
exporting, and comparing the results.]

This can't be right.  All styled text should be exported with 
class-labelled spans.  Of course text that is arbitrarily formatted 
by specifying bold, or font size, or typeface, etc., would always be 
output with a span detailing the formatting, and therefore if one 
wants to preserve the style tags (either for their logical 
connotation or to change their CSS specification) one should always 
apply a style rather than arbitrary formatting.

I am working around this by adding an extra space at the end of the 
text and avoiding selecting it when I apply style to the entire text, 
but really this is a major gotcha that should be fixed ASAP.