Tables in WordPress.com blogs?

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  bernieball · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:08 pm

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  Hi,
  I’m setting up my blog using WordPress.com as the host and would like to put a 3-column, 7 row table in a few of my posts. I’ve found a few different plugins that are used for tables, but assume that I cannot use them with WordPress as the host. Is there a way that I can create a table in WordPress or create one outside of WordPress and import it?

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  wpvstp · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:10 pm

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  Sure you can create tables using plain old regular HTML, just switch to HTML view and do as it says here:
  http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_tables.asp
  Simple tables work best, the more advanced ones tend to mess up and do strange things to your design.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:22 pm

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  And if you want to do tables the easy way, download Windows Live Writer.

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  wpvstp · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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  That is easier, true. I’m still old school…from the time when you had to get your HTML right in order to make Netscape display anything on your website. But I do use LiveWriter, too.

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  teck07 · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:50 pm

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  Windows Live Write has a feature were you can add tables to your site
  you can insert a table without any HTML knowledge…

  Windows Live Writer (Off Line Blog Editor)
  Windows Live Writer (Over View)

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  bernieball · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 6:55 pm

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  Wow,
  Quite a series of quick replies! I’ll download Windows LIve Writer on my PC and give it a test drive. HTML would be a nice option too, but I’ve currently got too many irons in the fire. I’ll be back with my view of WLW in a few days.

  Thanks, bernie

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  bernieball · Member · Aug 19, 2008 at 12:00 am

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  Thanks for all of the help (so far). It looks like Windows Live Writer will do the job!

  cheers, bernie