Pasting Table Of Text

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Is there a way to type a “Table” of text in a post? I find that copy/pasting with extra spaces/tabs from Notepad is not working.

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I’d try taking a screenshot of it and inserting it like a picture.
snipit in Word, or ctrl-alt-function key in Chrome…or the like.

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You can build them with markdown like this.

Col A Col B Col C
A1 B1 C1
A2 :smile:

If you copy and paste from Excel it’ll build the table for you. I think the issue with notepad is it isn’t a true table, it’s just formatted text

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Oh damn …

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I know the right answer is RTFM yo!..but hoping someone has done it before.

Is there a way to rid of those built-in Column 1,2…(and when I added beyond 4 it became E,F…) ?

Example: Chinese Wine — Ongoing Tasting Notes and Discussion - #10 by JamesMak

Kinda look unprofessional but I couldn’t just replace them with my own headers.

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There is not unles you do a screenshot of the table as you want to see it and post it as an image

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Todd, I did a double take to decide that you ain’t joking there. :joy:

p.s. did tried google and clicked on this How to change the default column names? - Support - Discourse Meta. TL;DR.

Hard to believe it’s that hard.

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My admin side has no such settings / what’s the core issue here?

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The core issue IMO is probably a failed justification of engineering cycles to help whiny users, who could actually help themselves.

Finally tried editing the full post ( NOT edit table ). And it’s fixed Chinese Wine — Ongoing Tasting Notes and Discussion - #10 by JamesMak.

Steps here:

  1. Create the table normally. Copy / Paste your own table. Hit Build Table. (This step is indeed less messy but you can go straight to type the markdown. )
  2. Once the table looks good. Go edit the post (hit the pencil icon at the bottom of the post, NOT the one top right of the table). The table markdown appears like below :

“|Column 1 |Column 2 |Column 3 |Column 4|”
“| — | — | — | — |”
“| | <your column name 2> | <your column name 3> | <your column name 4> |”

The markdown is without quotes, I put them to disable the table rendering here.

  1. Simply copy your own column name (3rd) row, paste it over the first row. Looks good, delete your own row.

p.s. I don’t know what caused the “your own columns” row to display like that. Looks right in the editor :enraged_face:

p.s. 2 Never seen what the admin sees, but that Discourse post is probably for dev. Not really helpful.