Ok who on here uses the table BBCode ?
Not many I suspect, because it is after all a pain in the neck to get right and to set up, and whilst there are a few generators online, they do not save your work to make editing easy.
What I am going to do is tell you how to set up the table once, and that's it, you will never have to set it up twice,if you save it that is.
The table BBCode consists of several elements
[table=] sets the code in motion
[tr] and [/tr] Set a row
[td] and[/td] set a cell or block in the table
[/table] sets the end of the table
Simple, so how do you set up the table ?
First you need to open Excel or similar spreadsheet.
In the top left cell put
[table=]
Starting from the left in the next row down enter :
[tr][td] leave a blank column [/td][td] leave a blank column [/td][td] until you have the number of columns you need, after your final column enter [/td][/tr]
Now simply copy/paste the first row for as many rows as you need.
Then in the final row put :
[/table]
you should have something similar to this :
Which when posted on a forum which allows the table BBCode will produce this :
I have also used the legend BBCode for the above post
You may need to play with the whitespace a little, as some forums may have the "Preserve Whitspace MOD", but it is still a lot easier than doing it cell by cell.
Remember to save the blank template
Not many I suspect, because it is after all a pain in the neck to get right and to set up, and whilst there are a few generators online, they do not save your work to make editing easy.
What I am going to do is tell you how to set up the table once, and that's it, you will never have to set it up twice,if you save it that is.
The table BBCode consists of several elements
[table=] sets the code in motion
[tr] and [/tr] Set a row
[td] and[/td] set a cell or block in the table
[/table] sets the end of the table
Simple, so how do you set up the table ?
First you need to open Excel or similar spreadsheet.
In the top left cell put
[table=]
Starting from the left in the next row down enter :
[tr][td] leave a blank column [/td][td] leave a blank column [/td][td] until you have the number of columns you need, after your final column enter [/td][/tr]
Now simply copy/paste the first row for as many rows as you need.
Then in the final row put :
[/table]
you should have something similar to this :
Which when posted on a forum which allows the table BBCode will produce this :
I have also used the legend BBCode for the above post
You may need to play with the whitespace a little, as some forums may have the "Preserve Whitspace MOD", but it is still a lot easier than doing it cell by cell.
Remember to save the blank template
