Forum:Pasting tables from MS Excel or Word

Hi. I admit, i'm more or less newbie in Wikia, my only "work" here is at http://unrealworld.wikia.com/wiki/Unreal_World_Wiki.

I have problem with latest Wikia editor version. If i paste a table from Excel, i don't see cell's bordering, coloring and other "design" in editor and on page after publishing. Ok, that was happening in older editor too, so i pasted Excel's table to Word and then copied and pasted from Word to previous editor and everything was working fine and tables in Wikia looked just like in Word - look at the both pasted tables of mine on http://unrealworld.wikia.com/wiki/Cultures

Now, this doesn't work with latest editor version any more. When i paste a Word table (which was made in Excel and pasted to Word) table looks fine in editor but when i click Preview or firstly Source and then go back toVisual, i see only code. Look at the image which shows how a table looks in Word: word-table.jpg

Here is this table pasted to editor: pasted-table.jpg

And here you can see how it looks like after publishing:

mso-padding-alt:0cm 3.5pt 0cm 3.5pt" width="621" I think MS Office version has nothing to do with this - this is happening with 2003 and 2007 versions. Is there anything i can do (except going to source mode editing) to see my table in Wikia as it should look like?

Thans for help.


 * To be honest with you: Word is the WORST text processing program to copy paste to a HTML page from. It adds about 7 lines of invisible code for every line you copy from it. And usually in a form of code which does not work well with HTML. Try to switch the editor view to source mode and you will easily see what i mean (there is about 125 lines of junk code in this page added by MS office).


 * I advice you to use the tables as are given by the editor itself. For help, see Help:Tables. Or use:


 * To have a sortable table in wiki.

- Yeah, i should go to Help:Tables before writing this topic, since I installed Open.Office today, opened excel's table in Open.Office Calc, copied&pasted it here and table looks well now on wikia.