{"id":478,"date":"2017-06-04T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsphysics.co.uk\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:38:23","slug":"tablepress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/06\/04\/tablepress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablepress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tablepress, better than a bench press and more tasteful to the eye<\/h3>\n

As if 4 days at Standardisation isn’t enough, I sadly decided to spend the evening finally\u00a0learning how to put neat tables into a website. The ultimate guru for this is Mr\u00a0 Mackenzie <\/a>who holds the “National Collection <\/a>for SQA Papers<\/a>“. I’d got as far as downloading Tablepress but hadn’t done anything more than that.<\/p>\n

Several posts currently have tables and they look shocking. I am quite embarrassed by them, so sort to do something about them. I’ve got something in my continual professional development about making things look better but as I am unlikely to get out for a course I thought I’d self taught. Over the last three months I thought I’d be able to bend the ear of Mr Mackenzie, but although we are at Standardisation together, with the rest of the team, there isn’t much time for a tutorial. So off I went to the next best place, the internet. Now I looked at several ideas but the following link gave me a start Web Monkey<\/a>\u00a0gave me a start, but I must admit I got bored of waiting after the super heroes got to the fourth line.<\/p>\n

So I decided to have a play with the SQA SG Past Papers and Marking Instructions. J Boyle,\u00a0had kindly offered these files to me, and I hope that she doesn’t mind me uploading them. Although these are excellent as a resource for National 4 and 5, if a student manages to complete them all they deserve to do well in their National 5 exam.<\/p>\n

It was over 2 hours of work. I uploaded an excel table to get the basics in and then had a play about. I am not sure if I’ve learnt the correct way to add a link but adding insert image appears to open the media library and I can upload the files. I’ve found it is easier to add all the files into one box rather than cut and paste them individually from the library. I even got to move the boxes, although again I think I might have taken a circuitous route to do this: I added a column, duplicated a column and then deleted the column that was empty and the original one, then I found the drag and drop function. I hope I can learn how to custom the column widths.<\/p>\n

Hopefully over the next few months I can change all the tables and make them look quite presentable. I hope they look good on a mobile phone too. Now I am going back to my hotel\u00a0room and am going to sleep- can you believe the 8 a.m. early start and late nights we will be doing.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who helped!<\/p>\n

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