Inserting Tables

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  kingmatcportfolio · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 3:35 am

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  Hello!

  I am a new wordpress user. I am trying to copy and paste in a table from word. I tried the button for pasting in from word, but my column gridlines vanish EVERY time leaving only the horizontal lines. I need to have the four column separation. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 19, 2011 at 4:20 am

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  Please link to the page where you have made your table, starting with http:// so we can take a look at precisely what you are asking about.

  I believe Twenty Ten has some CSS design which makes simple tables a bit complicated to write in current html so you will need to style your tables manually.

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  kingmatcportfolio · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 4:26 am

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  http://kingmatcportfolio.wordpress.com/artifacts/summary-of-artifacts-evidence/

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 5:52 am

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  Pieces of code such as border=”1″ or cellpadding=”0″ are deprecated and have no effect. You have to use inline CSS instead. For a border around each cell you need to turn each and every opening td tag to this:
  <td style="border:1px solid #e7e7e7;" valign="top">

  To center align the content of a cell you mustn’t enclose it in p tags. Use this:
  `

  CENTERED TEXT HERE
  </td>’

  Note: e7e7e7 is the default light grey of the theme – you can change it if you wish. Pallettes and color codes here:
  http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 5:54 am

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  Sorry for the wrong ticks in the second example.

  <td style="border:1px solid #e7e7e7;text-align:center;" valign="top">
  CENTERED TEXT HERE
  </td>

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  kingmatcportfolio · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 6:52 pm

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  Thank you!!