That's a totally terrific tutorial, toadette! - especially this page (click)

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A lot of people use HTML editors to do all the work. As a result, their HTML has a lot of unneeded characters. This can be especially bad when making tables, because tables use so much HTML.

I use Excel for making tables, because I can insert a column of HTML tags right where I need it. I put the text in first, and then insert columns for the HTML tags

first column:	<tr><td>
middle columns:	</td><td>
end column:	</td></tr>

You don't need the "align" settings most of the time, since the defaults work pretty well. My initial tag is

<table border=0 cellpadding=10>

And then my final tag is

</table>
(adjust numerical values as needed)

Mudcat is set up so posters are not allowed to post tables (improper table tags can give us fits), so I have to set up an exception for special projects that need tables.
-Joe-