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bulletin board formatting question

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2008, at 2:21 a.m.

In Response To: bulletin board formatting question (happyjuggler0)

There used to and must still exist word processing software for converting unaligned spaced columns to tabular columns to word processing tables to HTML tables (easily, with macros). But if instead you don't mind using a little HTML, it's not too time-consuming to manually put a few rows and columns of text, like the 3 columns and 11 rows of a match analysis summary, into an HTML table.

Copy the match analysis summary into any text processing program (Notepad will do).

The only html code you need to know is:

  • {TABLE} -- that goes above all the data and starts the table.
  • {/TABLE} -- that goes below it and ends the table.
  • {TR} -- that goes at the beginning of each line. It means "table row."
  • {TD} -- that goes at the beginning of each column. It means "table data cell."

So, at the beginning of each line of text, put a {TR}{TD}, and then another {TD} anywhere in the white space between the 1st and 2nd columns, and another {TD} between the 2nd and 3rd columns. Use the cut'n'paste featires so you only have to type {TR}{TD} and {TD} once. If you want the data cells outlined, change the first {TABLE} to {TABLE border="1"}.

Instead of "{" and "}" use "<" and ">".

That's it. Copy and paste everything into the posting window. Don't worry about the excess spaces. The forum software will eliminate them.

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