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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.
You can add a table using HTML rather than wiki markup, as described at HTML element#Tables. However, HTML tables are discouraged because wikitables are easier to customize and maintain, as described at manual of style on tables. Also, note that the <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are not supported in wikitext.
Regardless of whether wikitable format or HTML is used, the wikitext of the rows within a table, and sometimes even within a collection of tables, may have much in common, e.g.: the basic code for a table row; code for color, alignment, and sorting mode; fixed texts such as units; special formats for sorting
This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above).
For years in HTML, a table has always forced an implicit line-wrap (or line-break). So, to keep a table within a line, the workaround is to put the whole line into a table, then embed a table within a table, using the outer table to force the whole line to stay together. Consider the following examples: Wikicode (showing table forces line-break)
One method of hiding rows in tables (or other structures within tables) uses HTML directly. [1] HTML is more complicated than MediaWiki table syntax, but not much more so. In general, there are only a handful of HTML tags you need to be aware of
[[Category:Multi-column templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Multi-column templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
This tutorial is a guideline which, as part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style, is intended to assist those creating data tables (or more often lists) in ensuring the content is accessible to all. For more info on how to create and edit tables, see Help:Table. Guidelines on this page are ordered primarily by priority, then difficulty.