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Maybe a string of non-breaking spaces, inserted between values?

   Heading  Heading
   Value 1   Value 2
   Value 3   Value 4

That's close, but a pain in the butt because each non-breaking space is this code (without hyphens): &-n-b-s-p-;

Thanks for the ideas so far.

Telemoxie – nice idea, but I don’t think that the site supports the table structures. I’ve asked Neshinator (Contributor here and our webmaster and e-marketing manager) to have a crack at it. Actually, maybe the boys in white coats could lay out the HTML ground-rules for the site – I contribute to a few other sites and the Adam Smith Institute blog site actually list out the acceptable HTML code which can be used and offer wizards to achieve bold and so on for the uninitiated. But they were always the first to do anything in the world of think tanks!

Shelly – nice try! I had a go at using HTML to hyperlink my website without making the www stuff visible, but despite trying two standard formats, all I got was a posting with the code in it – just as happened to you! There has to be a way though as I’m sure that I’ve seen others achieve it.

The non-breaking string does work and it is a pain. It gets to be very time consuming with a big table, such as the one I tied (But failed) to make sense of for Juliet – one of our new contributors. I had to email my spreadsheet to her home address so that she at least had an idea of what the hell I was trying to spell out.

Columns and tables apart, I’d love to be able to do formulae and maths here, just so that I can baffle people more than I already do!

Michel – I guess that you pushed enter when you didn’t intend to! For the rest of our readers, her question is posted on:

https://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=18582

Please help her if you can.

Best wishes

Steve Alker
SalesVision

Thanks for all your efforts, sterling work there and it at least shows that I’m not as dim as I was coming to think that I was.

I’ve asked Val if she could ask one of the guys with the huge brains to have a look at it. I think it’s fantastic that our community members are prepared to put in what is obviously quite a bit of work to see if they can help out, even when the solution proves so illusive.

Maybe it’s like Goldbach’s Conjecture and there isn’t a solution!

Steve Alker
SalesVision

Dear Carrie



That’s understandable and better to know than not know.



How then do some contributors force bold (Many instances) Indents (A few instances) and hidden hyper-links i.e. SalesVision resolving itself into www.salesvisiononline.com when clicked.



Once I’ve cleared up the mystery “exceptions”, I’ll close the question and thank my colleagues for their efforts.



Best wishes



Steve

Dear Everyone:

I’ll close the question now as Michael has provided, to my mind a brilliant work-around which solves many problems, including those of posting formulae and graphs into this forum. I’d like, however to offer the points proportionately as everyone who had a go at this must have spent considerable time in attempting a solution.

Telemoxie: The fixed width idea should work, but die to the rules employed, I’m afraid it doesn’t – rather like Michael’s annoying break he couldn’t get rid of. The rules must have intended and unintended consequences.

Shelly: nice attempt and thanks for trying. Maybe a solution to basic formatting problems such as bold and italic would be to have a toolbar on the comment box (Like the spell check) setting out the permitted HTML. We do this on )


https://www.salesvisiononline.com/forum/
SalesVision.

Try to add a comment to see what I mean.

Oh, B**ger! At least Italic and Bold worked – I’ll have to practice! This is the site I intended:
www.salesvisiononline.com/forum

Funny thing is that the above mangeled resplink works, its just the SalesVision bit that doesn't.

Jennifer: Same rules apply but thanks again for experimenting.

Carrie: Thanks for taking this to the tech people and clarifying the issue – I won’t give you points as it might be interpreted as attempting to curry favour!! Come to think about it, how do you earn them if everyone takes this attitude? Oh sod it, I’d better play fair, otherwise your contributions will never go acknowledged.

Michael: Sheer brilliance in concept and as I said earlier, a solution to many problems. If my rusty HTML works, then the comments above should show that I’ve both learned something today and been able to apply some of it to simple formatting. When I’ve got more time I’ll sort out the hyperlink example. I must have typed some code incorrectly as the above link refers to an internal MarketingProfs reference which I didn’t type. Do you possibly have different rights to me or is it, much more likely, a trivial error on my part. Whatever, I can now show off with as much BOLD as I like, so ta!

Thanks again to all for this.

Steve Alker
SalesVision