Basic question about forum formatting

[karmacable]

I'm beginning to use this forum a lot (which is both good & bad : )

One thing that's been driving me nuts is that when I formulate my questions and have nicely formatted them in MS Word, the minute I paste into these boxes my formats have gone away! For example, if I want to illustrate my table design by saying;

Field:_____Project______1st_CamA_Rig
Table:____tblProject_____tblProject

You see I have to put the underlines in to connect the words. Otherwise, it'll look like this;

Field: Project 1st_CamA_Rig Table: tblProject tblProject

I know how to use the wrap to make my VBA posts maintain their format, but I haven't found the right wraps to maintain my basic Word spacing. I like my examples to be as visual as possible (e.g. to be understood as quickly as possible) which is why I take the effort to format them and I'd appreciate any of this forum's veteran's pointing me on the best way for me to simply copy + paste from Word into this text box, and NOT lose my formats!

Thanks,

[ajetrumpet]

you can't control this my friend. to some extent you can though. for instance, on the advanced screen for replies there is a ''table'' icon on it. use it to post data. What that does is surround the data you post inside of it with <table> tags in HTML. I think, anyway.

This forum is scripted in PHP, obviously you can't manipulate that part. So you have to paste data in that it can/will be pleased with.

In general, the icons are here as vehicles for you to pass your own data so it can be formatted by the server scripts.