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From: "Ralph Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] FREEPAGES-HELP converting Excel spreadsheet
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:03:53 -0600
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Re: "is there any way to make the columns wider when using this method?"

Jenny, Pat may answer with a CSS-based solution. <G> Here's another.

This specifies the width of the cells, taking over from the default widths.

Instead of just 'td' inside the carats, make it 'td width="xx"' where xx is
a number or a percent; the width must be enclosed in quotation marks. A
number would be in pixels, a percent (the percent sign, %, is required)
would be the percentage of the total table width.


-rt_/)


Back last fall, the following suggestion was given for removing excess code
from an Excel table:

Here is another option that creates clean code.

Suppose you have a 3 column spreadsheet i.e.

| DATA | DATA | DATA |

Insert new columns at the beginning and end, and between each data
column. Insert table row and cell tags in those columns like this:

| <.tr><.td> | DATA | <./td><.td> | DATA | <./td><.td> | DATA | <./td><./tr>
|

Use the FILL DOWN command to repeat the HTML code in each row of your
spread sheet.

Now go to your web page and insert the beginning and ending TABLE codes:
<.table>
<./table>

Copy and paste your spread sheet, including all those TR and TD tags
between the TABLE ... /TABLE tags.

The dot/periods are used here to invalidate the HTML for those email
readers that execute them. Eliminate them for your actual table.

Pat

I was actually able to do it, even though I don't "do" HTML! My question is
this: is there any way to make the columns wider when using this method? I
had the width set in the spreadsheet, but when I paste it in this way, they
seem to be only one character wider than whatever is in them, and I think it
makes the table hard to read. Should I just live with the crowded look?
Thanks for any help.

Jenny

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