Anyway to simulate a table, i.e. to line things up?

[progree]

8. Finally got the image / Imgur thing to work

Thanks much for the tips on the various kinds of spacing, I only knew about the (ampersand)nbsp; one.

The table is lovely!

I finally learned to use Imgur.com and gotten somewhat comfortable with it. But, as Churchill supposedly said (possibly apocryphal, https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/americans-will-always-right-thing/ )

"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

Like Churchill's typical American, I did everything wrong or the most difficult way first.

What seemed to be working is fairly simple now:

- Starting from what is essentially an Ascii text table in Word (but colored and bolded and all that as desired and looking just like I want it to look), and in Courier New 10 font (Courier New is a fixed width font, where every character -- blank, i, w, whatever -- is the same width)

- I used the Windows "Snipping Tool" ( I found it on my Windows Start menu, but if it's not there: Start button -> All Programs (that's near the bottom of the start button menu) -> Accessories -> ... ),

This "Snipping Tool" is a built-in Windows "accessory" with Windows 7.

With the Snipping Tool started, I clicked on the pull-down menu next to New, and, crucially, I selected the "Rectangular Snip" option (it might be that by default) and then just used my mouse (with left button held down) to "draw" a box around my Word table.

When I released the mouse button, the Snipping Tool window appeared with the table in the middle of it. With a hell of a lot of white space around it, but that turned out not to be a problem (all that white space isn't part of the actual "snip" ).

I used Save As (or Control S) and saved it to a file on my computer -- I chose the filename FederalExpensesA.png

Then I went to Imgur.com

I Clicked on the big green New Post button (note that I didn't have to register or log in or any of that)

I Clicked on Browse to browse my file system for where FederalExpensesA.png is and clicked the Open button

and the snip appeared in Imgur with the URL it gave me: https://imgur.com/QMhFGR1

and the actual picture is at xttps://imgur.com/QMhFGR1.png

(but replace the "xttps" with "https" )

and here it is:



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It's not necessary to save the snip to my computer first, I could have just clicked the Copy icon in the Snipping Tools icon menu bar (or did Control C), and then pasted it with Control V into Imgur where it indicates.

It seems better to have an account at Imgur.com so that I can access all my stuff and edit or delete what I want later, otherwise, after some time period like a couple of hours, I lose the capability for doing that. I guess Imgur eventually deletes orphaned stuff after a period of non-activity.

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