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holbuzvala
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Post by holbuzvala »

How do I put a table (like from an excel spreadsheet) into a post?
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Ossicone posted this handy little thing over in another part of the board:

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I've never bothered much with fancy tables, usually just use notepad and then shove the entire thing into a "code" bracket, like I did in this particular post showing off one of the ways in which a Proto-Skawlas verb can conjugate.


From what I can gather, though, you can use Excel, OpenOffice, or anything like that, and you can upload the image to somewhere like imgur, or... okay I only know imgur [:P] but basically it's just a case of taking a screenshot of your table, uploading the image somewhere online, then use the image tag to share the image here [:)]
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That's excellent! Thank you very much :)
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How did you make your 'code table' so neat?
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holbuzvala wrote:How did you make your 'code table' so neat?
I used Notepad on Windows which uses Courier New as its default font (the same font as appears when using code tags). All you ave to do there is just use spaces to align everything properly, and it will transfer over exactly the same way when using code tags. If you use a font that doesn't give letters, punctuation and spaces the same width you end up with something weird like:

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Aligned in Courier New:

          |  Svafnir | His Holiness | Kami |  Kyu |
Feb 21st  |   636    |     332      |  48  |  19  |
Feb 28th  |          |     322      |  52  |  19  |
March 6th |          |     322      |  52  |  19  |
vs.


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Aligned (ish) in Times New Roman:

                 |  Svafnir | His Holiness | Kami |  Kyu |
Feb 21st   |     636    |        332        |    48     |  19  |
Feb 28th   |               |        322        |   52    |   19  |
March 6th |              |         322       |    52    |   19  |

EDIT: Also, practice [:)] The more you make tables the more you'll get a better feel of how to arrange the space better, whether that's in Excel, and OpenOffice spreadsheet or in Notepad.
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One could also use a tool such as this one: https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/, which can make life a lot less hell.
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