Changing Text In More than one cell of a table

This shouldn't be this difficult. My table is three cells/columns wide and
from 8 to 14 rows deep. I'm pasting email messages in the middle of three
columns. Since the text/content comes from a variety of particiapants and email
clients all the text formatting is different. When I select the entire center
column and then set the text font, size etc, only the top cell of the row
changes to the desired font and size. Why can I not simply change all the fonts
and sizes in one column AT ONCE!

I'm a moderately skilled user and do not understand how to use CSS and don't
really have time. My preferred method is more direct--simply change the font of
a cell to the size and type that I want.

MikeT

Sometimes DW will apply css style to a cell and sometimes it will place it on text. You
have to look in code view to see what you have and fix things there. You can not see it
or change it in the design view. Find a column that works like you want and make the
others match.



Miket99 wrote:

This shouldn't be this difficult. My table is three cells/columns wide and
from 8 to 14 rows deep. I'm pasting email messages in the middle of three
columns. Since the text/content comes from a variety of particiapants and email
clients all the text formatting is different. When I select the entire center
column and then set the text font, size etc, only the top cell of the row
changes to the desired font and size. Why can I not simply change all the fonts
and sizes in one column AT ONCE!

I'm a moderately skilled user and do not understand how to use CSS and don't
really have time. My preferred method is more direct--simply change the font of
a cell to the size and type that I want.

MikeT

Thank you. From code view what code tells me that css is controling the cell and what code tells me it is controlling the text?

If DW is creating styles based on your copy and paste it will have
something like this in the head of your page:

..style1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, san-serif;
font-size: 14px;}

and somewhere in the code for the text you will see:

class="style1"

It may also be controlled by <font> tags. We would need to see the code
to help you out more. In reality you will save yourself time and
headaches by learning HTML and CSS even if it is a basic understanding
of it.

Travis
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Miket99 wrote:

This shouldn't be this difficult. My table is three cells/columns wide and
from 8 to 14 rows deep. I'm pasting email messages in the middle of three
columns. Since the text/content comes from a variety of particiapants and email
clients all the text formatting is different. When I select the entire center
column and then set the text font, size etc, only the top cell of the row
changes to the desired font and size. Why can I not simply change all the fonts
and sizes in one column AT ONCE!

I'm a moderately skilled user and do not understand how to use CSS and don't
really have time. My preferred method is more direct--simply change the font of
a cell to the size and type that I want.

MikeT

"Miket99" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message n

I'm a moderately skilled user and do not understand how to use CSS and
don't
really have time. My preferred method is more direct--simply change the
font of
a cell to the size and type that I want.

You may not have time for CSS but it is worth learning. Styling that whole
column would be very simple by defining a class with css and applying that
class to the whole column.... much better than using your <font>
tags.......

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Your problem may be more complex since many email programs format messages with inline HTML. You may have to strip (parse) the messages and make plain text then apply your formatting.

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