Maintaining table format?
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07-22-2008, 01:22 PM
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Maintaining table format?
So is there a way to post tables, maintaining their format?
I did a search and couldn't find anything in this forum...
I have tried numerous ways of doing this but nothing seems to work.
Standard, with proportional font spacing:
A B C
1 2 3
i l 1
Ugly, but gets rid of proportional font spacing:
Tried this:
So that doesn't interpret html formating, maybe this will work:
<TABLE>
<TR> <TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD></TR>
<TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>2</TD> <TD>3</TD></TR>
<TR> <TD>i</TD> <TD>l</TD> <TD>i</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
Nope....
I did a search and couldn't find anything in this forum...
I have tried numerous ways of doing this but nothing seems to work.
Standard, with proportional font spacing:
A B C
1 2 3
i l 1
Ugly, but gets rid of proportional font spacing:
HTML Code:
A B C 1 2 3 i l 1
HTML Code:
<TABLE> <TR> <TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD></TR> <TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>2</TD> <TD>3</TD></TR> <TR> <TD>i</TD> <TD>l</TD> <TD>i</TD></TR> </TABLE>
<TABLE>
<TR> <TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD></TR>
<TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>2</TD> <TD>3</TD></TR>
<TR> <TD>i</TD> <TD>l</TD> <TD>i</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
Nope....
#2
07-22-2008, 03:20 PM
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Re: Maintaining table format?
Hi,
Nothing that looks clean. But if you combined a non-proportional font, Courier New, with say "_" as the space holder:
__0 __1 __2
_10 _11 _20
100 111 222
..0 ..1 ..2
.10 .10 .20
100 111 222
The "space compressor" won't eat the "_" nor does it eat ".". But if you want to do ASCII art, I'm pretty sure it won't work.
Bob Wilson
Nothing that looks clean. But if you combined a non-proportional font, Courier New, with say "_" as the space holder:
__0 __1 __2
_10 _11 _20
100 111 222
..0 ..1 ..2
.10 .10 .20
100 111 222
The "space compressor" won't eat the "_" nor does it eat ".". But if you want to do ASCII art, I'm pretty sure it won't work.
Bob Wilson
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07-22-2008, 08:20 PM
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Re: Maintaining table format?
Back door trick would be:
Make your table in excel.
Screen shot your table (alt printscreen)
Cut the table part out using photshop or what have you.
Save the result as a *.gif , and post that.
Or
set the print area in excel for just the part of the table you want and print to pdf.
Post the pdf.
Make your table in excel.
Screen shot your table (alt printscreen)
Cut the table part out using photshop or what have you.
Save the result as a *.gif , and post that.
Or
set the print area in excel for just the part of the table you want and print to pdf.
Post the pdf.
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07-22-2008, 09:36 PM
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Re: Maintaining table format?
Hmm, I had considered the excel->picture route but had hoped for a HTML like capability. I figured there may be some other features that aren't in the icons for the advance post/edit.
Looks like I will take the ASCII route Bob suggested unless it is a big table. I posted several "ugly" tables a while back. Now that I know the options, I will probably never post another table
Looks like I will take the ASCII route Bob suggested unless it is a big table. I posted several "ugly" tables a while back. Now that I know the options, I will probably never post another table
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