alignment issue using TABs
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Take a look at my page Religious Lyrics. How do I get the text of the links in the second, third, fourth “columns” to line up neatly? I have checked my Word document and there are no intervening spaces, unless the placement is dependent on the actual length of the permalink itself before I convert it into a hyperlink. I’ve also tried columns which disappear every time I cut and paste onto a page. I am attempting to simply create an index of post titles (Fiction is set up and working in this regard, but other categories have more posts to list on a page.) Thanks.
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You need coding for tables (in the html editor):
<table width="100%" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td>R1L1_HERE</td><td>R1L2_HERE</td><td>R1L3_HERE</td><td>R1L4_HERE</td> </tr> <tr> <td>R2L1_HERE</td><td>R2L2_HERE</td><td>R2L3_HERE</td><td>R2L4_HERE</td> </tr> and so on </table>By R1L1 etc. I mean row1 link1 etc.
You can change the cellpadding number to adjust line spacing.
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Thanks for the reply and advice. Unfortunately, I know nothing about HTML so I guess I either learn or accept my imperfect method for now. I just stumbled on something that happened to work so I am sticking with that, although it is almost assuredly, the hard way!! I go to each individual post, choose Edit, highlight the permalink, Copy, Paste into a Word document, highlight the permalink and CTRL-K (insert hyperlink), type in the actual text of the post title and once I get a full page of links, I copy and paste this as a Page in my blog.
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Oh dear GOD no! You really have no idea what Word will do to your blog over time; one minute everything looks fine, the next your blog is unreadable and you have to go back and change weeks worth of posts. Do not paste tables from Word. Either use Windows Live Writer to make tables, an online table generator (there are lots, just google them) or learn to do it via HTML. Trust me, there’s a whole FAQ on why not to paste from Word
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Now you tell me LOL after I’ve uploaded over 500 posts! I’m a beginner, what can I say. I will look into some of your suggestions as well, raincoaster. Thanks. Posts seem to be fine so far, except for a few odd formatting issues, like TABs and spacing issues within poems sometimes, oh and BOLD text that shows up when I have meticulously removed all apparent BOLD formatting. Maybe I am doing much of this wrong. Oh well. It’s a start.
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@purplesplatitudes: raincoaster is absolutely right. Word doesn’t speak web language. Don’t rely on it for formatting, and if you paste from it, do it via the “Paste from Word” or “Paste as plain text” buttons of the editor. For simple formatting tasks (including links) you can use the buttons of the editor. For trickier formatting you need Windows Live Writer. (Or html.)
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Windows Live Writer is probably your best bet; it works almost exactly like Word and will save all headaches in the future, as well as automatically storing a backup of your blog. And it’s free.
If you haven’t seen major problems yet, you’ve completely dodged a bullet. You don’t need to redo all those posts.
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Thanks again so much. I have used the “Paste from Word” option exclusively and only a few glitches like I mentioned. I am looking into Windows Live Writer and who knows, maybe even heading to the library to find some books on learning HTML code. Appreciate the help!
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ok me again … I am NOW using Windows Live (thanks a million raincoaster) BUT apparently what I see on my monitor is NOT what anyone else sees when they load any of my blog pages in their browser. Again, Lyrics (Religious) — note the renaming … I see the four column table perfectly on my monitor, in my browser (IE # unknown at the moment). I went to show off my old dog learning a new trick to someone and the fourth column overlaps the sidebars on their monitor. How do I know if what I am seeing is what others will also see (and thus be able to use correctly since these are tables of hyperlinks to my posts after all)?? I believe I set the table size in Windows Live to 800 pixels, then 600, then 399. Also, if I may ask, if I need to overlap my indexes onto multiple pages what is the best way to do this? I hope I am clear about what I am trying to do and not asking too many questions. Thanks.
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