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For table markup, it can be applied to whole tables, table captions, table rows, and individual cells. CSS specificity in relation to content should be considered since applying it to a row could affect all that row's cells and applying it to a table could affect all the table's cells and caption, where styles closer to the content can override ...
The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above). Clicking the button will open a dialog where you define what you want in your new table. Once you've chosen the number of rows and columns, the wiki markup text for the table is inserted into the article.
Open the HTML file in a text editor and copy the HTML source code to the clipboard. Paste the HTML source into the large text box labeled "HTML markup:" on the html to wiki page. Click the blue Convert button at the bottom of the page. Select the text in the "Wiki markup:" text box and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the text to a Wikipedia ...
If just 2 columns are being swapped within 1 table, then cut/paste editing (of those column entries) is typically faster than column-prefixing, sorting and de-prefixing. Another alternative is to copy the entire table from the displayed page, paste the text into a spreadsheet, move the columns as you will.
Currently, there does not seem to be a way to copy those tables to a wiki and keep styling such as colors (background or text color). It is possible to convert PDF tables to Excel and keep the colors. Or to HTML tables and keep the colors. But there does not seem to be a way to copy any of those colored tables (PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.) to a wiki.
Copy the table to a wiki sandbox. In Calc select the table. Copy directly from it, and then paste into the visual editor, or if that does not work, into a blank visual editor table where the first header cell has been selected. It may take up to a minute. If there is a problem, then paste into Excel2Wiki first, and copy the wikitext.
Tables will show the "[hide]" / "[show]" controls in the first row of the table (whether or not it is a header row), unless a table caption is present.(see § Tables with captions) Example with a header row
Text can be made bold or italic using the B and I buttons on the toolbar. To create bold or italics without using the toolbar, put text between ' apostrophes; three on each side for bold, or two on each side for italics. '''bold''' ''italic'' An article's subject should always be written in bold the first time it is mentioned, but not thereafter.