Working Tables into Documents

[KellKheraptis]

How do you make tables, like the pretty ones in the official DnD books and on GitP, on a text document?  That would do wonders in organizing my revisions once I make it into a PDF.  Thanks!

~Kell

[bhu]

what are you looking for, classes, or monsters, etc?

[KellKheraptis]

what are you looking for, classes, or monsters, etc?

Neither actually, as I have a plethora of those available.  I'm needing to know how to embed the tables (e.g. here) of this kind into a text document (that will then become a PDF, also not an issue).  Hopefully this is clearer (sorry about that...I'm too succinct for my own good sometimes ).

[altpersona]

the term, 'text document' is bothersome.

if you mean, notepad .txt tables are not in your future. at least not nice tables.

if you mean a document with text in it, then we have something we can work with.

what program are you using to compose your documents?

office / open office you can 'insert table', 10 collums by 22 rows should work for most dnd things... adjust font style , font size, what nots... n yer done..

[KellKheraptis]

the term, 'text document' is bothersome.

if you mean, notepad .txt tables are not in your future. at least not nice tables.

if you mean a document with text in it, then we have something we can work with.

what program are you using to compose your documents?

office / open office you can 'insert table', 10 collums by 22 rows should work for most dnd things... adjust font style , font size, what nots... n yer done..

Can you do the same thing in MS Word/Wordpad?  I can always DL Open Office IIRC (I think that's the freeware one) if not.

[altpersona]

word and word pad are very different.

word yes,

word pad, maybe, i dont remember, its been ages since i used it.

for basic practice with table making, i would start w/ a spread sheet program like excel or open office calc.

its all the same once you go to do it in word / write, but the stuff is more clearly labeled in the spreadsheet apps

[altpersona]

now, im curious, playing with another option, will let you know how it works out..

[altpersona]

google docs will also work fine for table making.

[KellKheraptis]

Awesome, thanks!  I already have all the programs I need then, to begin working.  I'll look into GoogleDocs though, if nothing else to see if I can make something akin to the Hypertext SRD (that would be the ideal, but FUCK that's a lot of work...).

[altpersona]

only trouble im having with google docs is make it show + 1, i dont know how to set it as just text.. in other programs its easy.. i just dont see it so far in this one..

[altpersona]

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Auuk4pbn8mycdEpsU2d4bzFNOFp1d1F5b1JuUk5zSXc&hl=en

[KellKheraptis]

Crap, didn't let me access it.  Tis ok though, if googledocs can do it, I can figure it out I imagine.  Can't be any harder than any other word processing program

[altpersona]

couldnt access my link? i told it to share.. wtf

[Dictum Mortuum]

Use LaTeX