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Mar 20, 2015 at 2:56pm
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Re: Tables
by Past Member 'northernwrites'
I can't speak to improvements to the site programming, but there are some old-school techniques you can use.

For the tabbed list in Word, if you use the beta drag & drop/simple to upload the Word file to a Static creation page, and then copy/paste from there to the forum post, you should be able to retain the indent tags in your list.

If this is what you're trying to post, changing the format used in the spreadsheet to add leading zeroes will standardize the content length of the dates, which can make a difference.

03/23/2015{indent}03/29/2015{indent}Bill
03/30/2015{indent}04/05/2015{indent}Bobbie
04/06/2015{indent}04/12/2015{indent}Tanya
04/13/2015{indent}04/19/2015{indent}Cynthia

becomes this --

03/23/2015          03/29/2015          Bill
03/30/2015          04/05/2015          Bobbie
04/06/2015          04/12/2015          Tanya
04/13/2015          04/19/2015          Cynthia

If that's not enough, another workaround is to use the site's monospaced font -- courier.

03/23/2015          03/29/2015          Bill
03/30/2015          04/05/2015          Bobbie
04/06/2015          04/12/2015          Tanya
04/13/2015          04/19/2015          Cynthia


Using however many {s} (space) tags after variable-length text to standardize the length, you can put variable-length text in left-er columns.

{font:courier}
Bill{s}{s}{s}{indent}03/23/2015{indent}03/29/2015
Bobbie{s}{indent}03/30/2015{indent}04/05/2015
Tanya{s}{s}{indent}04/06/2015{indent}04/12/2015
Cynthia{indent}04/13/2015{indent}04/19/2015
{/font}

becomes this --

Bill             03/23/2015          03/29/2015
Bobbie           03/30/2015          04/05/2015
Tanya            04/06/2015          04/12/2015
Cynthia          04/13/2015          04/19/2015


Since this is handwork and you're probably repeating the variable-length information the next time in some form, it makes sense to save keystrokes by making the {s} additions to the source (spreadsheet) so you only have to do that once.


Hope that helps.

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