Wikipedia:Tip of the day/May 17

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Working with table formatting

Some table formatting has color codes, margin codes, etc. repeated throughout. So when you want to change the color scheme throughout the whole table, each code needs to be changed multiple times. Don't fall into the trap of modifying these manually! WikEd, a script that replaces Wikipedia's default editor (works only with Firefox), has a search/replace feature built-in. Or you could cut and paste the whole document from Wikipedia's edit box to a word processor in another window (Wordpad works well for this). Then use the wordprocessor's replace command to change each code throughout the whole document.

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