Business Computing Tips
By Karen Fainges

I tend to recommend using tables for everything, especially now that
Word 97 & 2000 have made them so easy to use. But why? Well there are
a few reasons.

One reason is that things tend to stay were you put them, especially
pictures. To place a picture inside a table, simply click into the
part of the table where you want the picture, then insert it. If it
moves to the top of the page and refuses to stay put, right click on
the picture, and format picture. Then choose the 'tight' option on
the layout tab. Then it should stay in the right spot. Cut and paste
it into the table.

Tables also make information easier to read on the screen where the
eye can follow a line. But the major reason is it makes them more
portable. If you send a page full of columns to someone over the web,
be prepared to have it arrive in a complete mess. In a table, the
information can be changed to html & stay put. Even better, a table
stays put if you save it to .rtf and that can be opened by any word
processing program from word pad up.
Unfortunately, it does not transfer over to straight .txt, but the
words in the tables still show up, just not in the same spots.

So, if you want a new web page, or want to put that advert onto the
web, put it in a table first and then save it as html. It will be
ready for the web with the minimum of fuss.

K-tips - "It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to
work."