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bigmac21011

Hello.

I prepare some cool tables in Excel 2007 and post theirs to forum. And bold or italic font copied as normal. Font color is always converted to black. If I copy from Excel to Word and from Word to message editor then in preview bewore table I see text like

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:

Also impossible delete created table (Key Del only clear cell content).

 

Can anybody suggest a external editor with full support in chess.com message editor?
artfizz

farbror wrote: Now what? is it possible to include HTML-code in the posts? How did you get that table?

artfizz wrote:

METHOD 1:

It is possible to create the tables directly in HTML using a tool on a webpage. I do that sometimes. here is the link for that process.  

Click where it says Tables (under Examples). This opens the TryIt Editor.

Edit the HTML in the left-hand pane. Click on Edit and Click Me. The result is updated on the right-hand side.

Copy and past from the right-hand pane into your forum post.

 

METHOD 2:

Open a Word document. (v.2003)

Create a table with the right number of COLUMNS ...

Table -> Insert -> Table

  specify the number of columns (don't worry about the rows)

  click on AutoFormat. Scroll down to Table Style Table Web 1.

         Click on OK in the Table Styles dialog.

    Click on OK in the Insert Table dialog.

Now paste the data into the cells.

When you TAB out of the last cell, it will create a new row.

Resize the table ...

Put the cursor in any cell. Table -> Select -> Table.

Right click. AutoFit -> AutoFit to Contents.

Finally, paste the entire table into your forum post.

ONE POINT TO WATCH OUT FOR: WHEN YOU QUOTE A POST CONTAINING A TABLE, THE FORMATTING GOES HAYWIRE. (You can copy and paste it directly from another post - just don't try to QUOTE it.)

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/tally-forum-annoyances-ii

artfizz

19. Table creation, update & quoting is poorly supported. [artfizz]

An ever bigger pitfall is with tables larger than about 20 rows and with more than say 100 characters per row. These can suddenly and without warning, corrupt the entire thread after you innoculously added or amended a row.

When that happens, all you can do is delete the entire thread and re-input it, one post at a time - AS HAPPENNED IN THIS CASE.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/tally-forum-annoyances-ii?page=4