Is there any way to send a blank space in a message box? I need to create a symbol that looks like "word 24" using mergefile to combine a symbol, "word " and a float "24" but i need the symbol to include a space at the end of it.
Any ideas?

Its a bit hard to understand what you want because this forum strips out "extra spaces".
Maybe:

[pack s f ] will output the message that you want... but you need to bang in the number on the right inlet before the word on the left, and you will need to use [list trim] afterwards to strip "list" from the output.

or if you want a symbol as output then feed the output of [pack s f ] into......
[list2symbol] (( [l2s] this always puts a space unless you specify a different delimiter))

[list2symbol] worked perfectly! thank you!

ugh.... this forum's formatting is atrocious, which isn't helpful when you're discussing a VISUAL programming language, hahah