I did find a way to publish tables to posts by posting them directly via Word, but this isn’t a great solution. If I edit the post within WordPress and click on the “Code” tab, the beautiful tables disappear. I could live with that if I was the only one posting to /editing the site, but I’m not. And it didn’t solve my problem with formatting in the sidebar widgets.

I have no doubt I’ll get it figured out, but I’m equally sure it’s way harder than it will be in the future. I really appreciate you trying to help, Curt. Thanks!

You can see the site now, it’s live in a “soft launch” period. If you’re into data about the television business, there’s already quite a bit of it up. Any tables you see within posts were generated via plugin. In case my name isn’t linked here, it’s tvbythenumbers.com . Thanks again,

Robert

With TinyMCE, all you need to do is copy the stuff from Excel and then press the “Paste from Word” button in TinyMCE (when using that particular feature of TinyMCE, I suggest using Internet Explorer, as it doesn’t work quite the same in Mozilla). TinyMCE will then nicely format your entire table, keeping all of the alignments, colors, etc. in place.

TinyMCE’s “Paste from Word” interface is so much cleaner and more effective than exporting something from an Office application.

Good luck with all of it. I know where you’re coming from, and I empathize with you.

But if I save, publish or simply move from the Visual tab to the Code tab and back..it gets totally screwed up. It preserves a portion of header, and that’s about it. I even tried pasting the table from Excel into Word, and then copying that and using the paste from Word feature. Same result.

I am using Office 2007 and perhaps that’s the problem. I will see if i have Office ’03 on another machine, and give it a try that way.

Thanks!

Robert

I would suggest the following in order to help suss it out:

Download the TinyMCE package from http://tinymce.moxiecode.net/. Unzip it into a folder on your computer somewhere. Open the “example_full.htm” file that’s in the examples directory.

Then, copy the table from Excel and paste it into that instance of TinyMCE using the Paste from Word button (which shouldn’t be a menu of any kind, it should just be a button you press that automatically pastes the content into the window).

Your version of Office shouldn’t make any difference to TinyMCE, as I am also using 2007, and I don’t have any problems.

Unfortunately, I don’t use drupal, so I can’t really help with the technical aspects of it specifically.

Again, good luck with all of it, and I look forward to seeing your site when you officially unveil it soon.

that might work brilliantly!

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