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I use a Google template to generate scheduled daily reports. The problem is that I can’t get the columns on each row to all have a consistent width from row to row, and as a result the table looks ugly. I hard-coded the column width in the template, nothing. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the text in the cell: the two cells containing the text ‘Walkon’ each are different size (trust me, I measured them on the screen!
How do I control the padding in each cell? I imagine this is a Google template issue, but I’m asking here first.
In above template you actually have a separate single row table every time <<Start>>…<<End>> loop generates a row, and there might be a bug on the Google Doc side or its converter to PDF which messes up columns width that way.
As a temporary workaround I think if you incorporate
<<Start>> and <<End>> in the same row, i.e. put <<Start>> in the beginning of first column, and <<End>> at the end of last column, then the columns width issue will be fixed; however in that case you would have to sacrifice the horizontal lines that separate rows which I understand may not be satisfactory for a tabular report.
Reza is correct that the best way to define a table is to use the technique described under topic “Order Template in Table Format” in this article help.appsheet.com - Email Templates
That approach allows you to define the table header, table detail rows, and table footer in a single table declaration.
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