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Welcome to the help page for tables!

Tables are a commonly-used way of displaying information, particularly in articles that contain lists. As with all things on Wikipedia, however, they require some explanation. This tutorial aims at providing a guide on how to make tables; if you are looking for the policy on when to use them, look at the '''[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables|Manual of Style]]'''.

If you have the enhanced editing toolbar (as seen on the right), there's an easy way to create a simple table. Just click "advanced", and then the icon that looks like a table,: which[[File:Vector istoolbar insert table button.png]] (second from the right). This should generate something that looks like this:

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