Post/Edit Box Feature

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parlayman — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:10:12 GMT

If you are looking for a feature that would take a random table from some other source or website and then transform it into a perfectly-designed table within the Lottery Post forums, I'm afraid that such a tool does not exist anywhere. Even high-end software like Excel struggles with that. It's just beyond the scope of what a website forum can handle. Your best bet is to either paste it as plain text and then re-format, or else paste in Excel, clean it up in there, and then paste from Excel int... [ More ]

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Todd — Sun, 31 May 2020 16:58:18 GMT

There is a way to automatically clean up formatting in pasted text. Click the Past as Plain Text button, and anything you paste into the box will have the formatting removed.

Also, you can set the Paste as Plain Text to be the default setting in the editor in the Account Settings page (Options menu). That's how I personally have it set, so I never need to worry about pasting miscellaneous styles from wherever I am pasting from.

If you are looking for a feature that would take a ran... [ More ]

Post/Edit Box Feature

parlayman — Sat, 30 May 2020 17:40:04 GMT

In the post/edit box, there is a table feature which is great for formatting purposes. Something that I think would be useful is (reusing much of the table code) a similar feature to allow the user to pour their data into an input box, in any cluttered up, disorganized way and have the result pasted into the post, cleaned up (of extra spaces, commas, parentheses, quotes, alpha characters, etc) and sorted in numerical order and all output as one long list so that the existing board code would sof... [ More ]