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To: Elroy who wrote (5082)	1/31/2008 10:09:37 AM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 20435

Well, if you can deal with the aesthetics of the example (I could get used to it but it's a change, therefore I resist -- I'm human), just right-click the top of each column in your spreadsheet that contains data (except the first one) and select "Insert". The cells won't be the same, but the formulas will adjust themselves. Then you can narrow the empty columns as much as you want in the spreadsheet to make the whole thing take up less screen space. The size of the empty columns apparently means nothing when you cut/paste. Then after you type your introductory text, and you're ready to paste from the spreadsheet, type < pre > (without spaces) in the message, paste from the spreadsheet, then type < /pre > (again, without spaces). When you're composing your message, look to the right. It shows the syntax of the message-formatting tags. Edit: If you do the empty-column thing, it'll look really hideous in the post composition screen because of the way it'll wrap everything, but it'll look fine in preview and in the post itself. Edit 2: The fixed-font tag just tells the system to use a mono-spaced font. Every character, whether a wide "W" or a narrow "i" gets the same amount of space. Without it, each character uses only as much space as it needs, so alignment is impossible. Although I'm curious and will have to try something. It might work without the fixed-font tags. If it'll still pay attention to the tabs created by the empty columns.