In the bingos you can of course create lists the same way as you did on the old forum. You might want to see the Note on clickable links further down in this post, as links are made differently here than in the old forum.
But in this forum, there’s also another way to create your list for the bingos; you can create a table. As it can be challenging to figure out how to create a table, I’ll try to teach you how to do it. There’s different ways to do it:
- You can create the list in an Excel sheet (or other spreadsheet on your computer) and copy the information into your post. The 4 corner fields needs to be filled before copying. Use a 0 (or another number or letter) and remove it after copying if you’d like the field to be empty in your post.
- You can create a table in Word (or another text document on your computer) and copy the table into your post. (If one or more of the 4 corner fields are empty and the table doesn’t show up correctly, try to insert a 0 (or another number or letter) into the empty corner fields and remove it after pasting the table into your message.
- You can create a table directly when creating your post. There’s most likely a key on your keyboard for the vertical line (|). On my computer the key is just left of the 1, on a key together with §. If you have a non-Norwegian keyboard, the | symbol may be on a key somewhere else on the keyboard, maybe together with other symbols. The | can be on the same key as < and > for instance. You might have to push Shift (the key with an upwards arrow) or Ctrl+Alt in addition to the | key to make the | appear. If you don’t find it, you can copy and paste a line here: | | | You can also learn about making tables here.
In this thread I’ll show you how to create tables directly when creating a new post in a thread.
You can use this format if you want separate lists for your sent and received postcards:
|Nr.|Region|ID|
|---|---|---|
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
You can use this format if you want to combine the sent and received cards in one table. (The colons I used in the second line makes the contents (number sent/received) centered instead if left alligned. But choose what you prefer.
|Region|Nr. sent|ID sent|Nr. received|ID received|
|---|---|---|---|---|
or |---|:---:|---|:---:|---|
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
Then you can start filling in information:
|Nr.|Region|ID|
|---|---|---|
|1|Region A|NO-4|
|2|Region B|NO-5|
|3|Region C|NO-6|
Example: Here’s what the tables in the post below looks like when creating the message.
Note on clickable links: if you write the ID of a postcard here in the forum (PT-1, NO-201010 etc), it’s automatically turned into a clickable link. You can see that I’ve only written the ID’s in the examples shown above. And the links magically show up.
If you rather want to create links yourself, where the text is different than the ID, you can use this markdown: [your chosen text](url)
. If you write [Norway](https://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/NO-201010)
, you’ll get Norway.