insert a table in a mail

fmontrelay wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

fmontrelay wrote:

Unfortunately, though you may be right, receipt if often needed for legal reasons.

That being said, I don't see why Apple should rule how I send emails.

They don't. You can use any OSX compatible mail client you choose to, pick a different one, one that has the facilities you need.

Yes, they do. Even in outlook, there is no receipt acknowledgement.

(but I have to say that I have given up Outlook for Mac long ago 😝)

So you searched 2 OSX mail clients and concluded that because they don't offer the function it is not possible?

You didn't try very hard did you.

Try PostBox, or Google for yourself (Apple & Microsoft are not the only vendors of OSX mail clients you know)

Some OSX Mail Clients.

In these forums they provide a rich text editor. Many email clients provide the same thing. See this image.

See the formatting options. They look very similar to the options in this forum that created your table.

Now in this same email client I will create a table.

The points I am trying to make are:

1. Mail does not have this capability but you do not have to use Mail

2. Even if you/I send this email containing a table, the recipient has control over how the table is displayed if it is displayed at all.

Sorry My posts have not been of any value to you.

I hope by now you figured out, but just in case you didn't, usually Apple works better with it's native apps, (in this case numbers), try copy/paste your excel info on numbers, format it in case you don't like it, and you can copy the entire table on to mail, and from now on, if you can, use numbers.

Cheers!

Use Preview as an intermediary:

Select the range of cells in Excel, choose Copy

Open Preview, New from Clipboard, choose Copy

In the Mail message, choose Paste.

I know this is an old question, but it's currently top hit for "email table in mail.app", so I thought I'd update it to report that I've found another way to do this.

Make a table in Textedit (rich text mode), fill in the rows and columns you want, then save it, choosing "Web Page (html)" in the "File Format" drop-down.

Now use Safari to open the .html page you just created (i.e. by double-clicking it in Finder), highlight the table (I made sure there were a couple of blank lines before and after when I created it) and copy it to the clipboard. The table can now be pasted into Mail.app and it'll display correctly (in OS X 10.11 El Capitan).

If you open the .html page in a text editor you'll see a load of <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> tags - if you know HTML you'll realise the implications of this.

Nice tip, thanks. 🙂

Hi. All of the above are fine suggestions, but does anyone know why Apple hasn't created this functionality directly into Mail?

If you create the table in Numbers on the Mac, the table copies to Mail. It won't work copying from excel.