Importing table - help!

[badger]

I've been asked by a friend (whose faith in me is obviously misplaced) if it's possible to import a table into a post. Either from Excel or Word. Nothing I do will please it. It just loses all formatting and appears as a list -

testing
testing
testing
testing
testing
testing


Looks fine when first inserted but goes as soon as I preview. Is it possible? Any suggestions? All I can think of now is to print, scan and save as an acceptable file attachment.

[Ricco]

Hi, Badger.
I converted a Word table into tab-separated values and then copy/pasted it. Will that do?

A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X Y

[Kingetter]

"Cheap way". Produce doc as you would - do prtscreen - open in PSP or whatever & tidy up (PSP takes clipboard stuff) - save as graphic - use as you need to.

[badger]

Thanks Ricco but don't know if that will work as it doesn't really look like a table Not sure how complicated it's going to be but imagine it will need grid lines.

Kingetter - 'scuse me, I can do the prtscreen but what's PSP? Oh, just realised. Hmmm. I know it sounds unbelievable but I don't have it (assume you mean PaintShopPro). Will ask friend if she has. Thanks for that. Meanwhile will mess about and see if I can do it with anything else.

[Kingetter]

Yup, Paint Shop Pro. I use that method quite a bit for stuff I need but not with great quality. Would probably be ok for the forum messages.

I'll try look out an example if I can.
I used it to try and teach folk how to use MSN Group sites.

[Kingetter]

Just made one -