Jimbatron Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 (edited) Hi - I was wondering if someone could help me with a technical issue on creating relatively complex tables with nice visuals on a forum post. For context, a while ago I created a guide for RDR2, see here: https://gtaforums.com/topic/922595-rdr2-100-completion-strategy-guide/?tab=comments#comment-1070595373 This has some pretty large tables in it, with one row for every task in the game, colour coded for easy reading etc. This was created in Excel, and at the time is was possible to paste the table in when editing a post and all the formatting would be retained. Unfortunatley it appears this is no longer possible since the last forum update. Pasting in simply adds plain text (even if you select normal paste as an option) I now have a new guide in the works I'm hoping to add to the forums in the next couple of months, however, I'm not sure of the best way to create complex, nice looking tables such as this. My best thought is in my excel books to write some VBA code (someone very kindly informed me that's a "Dad's progamming language" these days) that will read my tables and turn it into HTML code - but even that is a monumental pain. Any suggestions on how to do this without taking weeks would be greatfully recieved! Edited September 26, 2021 by Jimbatron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Spider-Vice Posted September 26, 2021 Solution Share Posted September 26, 2021 I've honestly never tried Excel, but pasting tables from Word, as I've done before, seems to work just fine like before and even retain formatting? Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 Header 4 Content 1 Link 1 Fancy Colours More Fancy a b c d Jimbatron 1 GTANet | Red Dead Network | black lives matter | stop Asian hate | trans lives = human lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbatron Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Spider-Vice said: I've honestly never tried Excel, but pasting tables from Word, as I've done before, seems to work just fine like before and even retain formatting? Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 Header 4 Content 1 Link 1 Fancy Colours More Fancy a b c d EDIT: Thanks for replying - got it to work - cheers, transferred from Excel, to Word, then repasted in here. Just had to paste into Word the correct way. Edited September 26, 2021 by Jimbatron Spider-Vice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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