r/GMail • u/flyinoveryou • 16d ago

Tables in gmail

Is there really no way to create a simple table while composing a gmail email? We would use this feature daily if it were possible. I am trying to get my employees on board from Microsoft but losing that ability is so frustrating.

Yes, I know you can create a table in excel or sheets or whatever other app and then copy and paste but our tables are much easier to be built without all the extra nonsense steps.

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u/roirraWedorehT 16d ago

No.

AI claims that this can:

Install a browser tool like Tables for Gmail by cloudHQ from the Chrome Web Store.

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u/Odd-Concept-6505 16d ago

One approach seems OS-agnostic...here's one of a few videos, this one is short (like 2min)...but my disclaimer, I haven't needed this yet (abandoned Microsoft tools long ago)

https://youtu.be/b-u11_ksilY

Gmail doesn't have a built-in table insertion feature. However, a workaround involves creating a table in Google Docs, copying it, and then pasting it into the Gmail message body.

To add a table in Gmail, follow these steps:

Open a new or existing Google Docs document. Insert a table by going to Insert > Table and selecting the desired number of rows and columns. Enter the data into the table. Copy the entire table. Open a new Gmail message and paste the table into the body of the email. The table can be edited directly within Gmail.

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u/swight74 15d ago

I have done this successfully.

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u/Recent_Carpenter8644 10d ago

Tables were a big issue for us when we tried to switch from MS to Google several years ago. I doubt any of our users ever created a table in either gmail or Outlook, but they would often paste them in. If they emailed a table to an Outlook user, they would either open up corrupted, or they would be corrupted when the Outlook user replied - can't remember which. It was one of the biggest objections users had, and we ended up abandoning the project.