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From: Barry Carlson <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] converting Excel spreadsheet
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:14:53 +1300
References: <006b01c76524$bb06edd0$b834aed8@JENNYCALVIN>


Jenny

As has already been suggested, include the actual width of the cell e.g. <td
width="20> but you only need to do it in the first row as each succeeding
row <tr> will follow the first.

Regards
Barry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny M. Calvin" <>
To: "Freepages-Help" <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: [FreeHelp] converting Excel spreadsheet


> 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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