How to insert a Table in my WordPress post?

I’ve asked a question How to insert a Table in my post?
on a WordPress forum in August 2009. My blog still gets many visitors through the link posted with the question. Why people are coming back?  The problem is that adding a table is still not quite trivial in WordPress, and the only answer given for my question does not work for many people, as it did not work for me.

On the forum, a WordPress  member thesacredpath suggested downloading and using Windows Live Writer blog client. I sincerely appreciate the desire to help, but this advice does not work for me. I don’t want to download anything. Plus, I’m using Mac and Linux  computers, and any Windows program would be  a hassle for me.

The good news, it is not necessary to download any software to be able to add a simple table to a WP blog. I’m using Google Sites, a free service from Google, which has slightly more advanced online HTML WYSIWYG  editor than WordPress. You don’t need to install anything, but you’ll need to register for a free Google account.

If you know other easy ways of creating a simple table without HTML coding and installing software, please comment here, but for me, using Google Sites was good enough. I’ll explain how to create a table below in in great details in case a less technical beginner blogger would like to use this method.

If you already have a Google account, do the following to create an HTML table:

1. Go to http://www.google.com/sites and press the button “Create new site”

2. On the next page, enter a name you like into the field “Name your Site:”, type the right captsha code on the bottom of the page and press “Create site” button. Your new site will be created and opened on the next page. A great byproduct of that method is that you are getting your own free website, which you may use for whatever purposes.

3. On your new site, press “Edit page” button in the upper right corner. Than, in the menu bar on the top of the page select “Table -> Insert Table”, and choose number of rows and columns for your table. When you finished, an empty table will be inserted on your site’s page.

4. Edit your page as you need. Type your data into it. Using the “Table” menu off the site’s editor, you may reconfigure your table, insert and delete rows and columns.

5. When you are done with the creating you table, click on little  icon on the top of the page. You will be taken to the HTML  representation of your page. Select and copy to clipboard the text beginning with “<table style…” and including “… </table>”

6. Come back to you WorPress editor, the post where you want to insert your table.  Choose “HTML” tab in the top right corner of the editor, choose the place where you want to insert your table and paste the html text that you remember on the google site’s. Now switch the editor to the visual mode – choose “Visual” tab in the upper right corner.  You will find your table inserted in your post.

Here is the example of the table hat I created using described method while writing this post. No software installation or HTML coding were involved.

	Store 1	Store 2
Gatget A	120	200
Gatget B	300	50
Widget 1	10	25