Hi Bruce,
Good question.
I have never used excel actually, would be the reason.
Though it should not be all that diffiuclt to do a table in publisher or
word, without too much diffiuculty, I thought 
I had used word for the longest time before I got into publisher, and ppt.
Not sure I want to endevour to learn excel.
Not much to learn, if all you want to do is create a static table (as you
would in Word). Start the programm :-) Type text into the cells, as required.
Drag the cell margins to get the column widths and row heights (or use the
Format/Cell command to specify very exact measurements). Select all the cells
you need in Publisher. Edit/Copy. Go to Publisher. Edit/Paste.
The really nice thing about Excel is that it breaks big things (tables,
graphics) across pages - both vertically and horizontally - with an overlap.
Love it...
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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