A Featured Article on how to create and work with Tables in an email draft is sorely needed.

[DoctorBashir]

Over the years I have had many times I wanted to create and edit tables in a draft email. Here are some of the operations find extremely frustrating.
* The methods available for changing the table, column and row dimensions are awkward at best, mysterious at times. I find it impossible to drag the borders to where I want them. I don't understand how to use the symbols on the border of a selected cell, column or row.
* The methods of copying a table or table contents from other apps, like Excel, Word, other apps, are almost impossible to get right. I just found out about Excel2Mail so that may help.
* The options for formatting the borders is extremely limited.
* Copying and then Pasting several items from a row or column in an external table (not the whole table) into columns and/or rows is difficult or impossible.

Now maybe it is that creating complex tables in an email is not something that is widely requested, but the functions present should be much easier to use. At the minimum I would like to see a full description of how to use tables. If there is already one. I'd love to see it.

[Jon]

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