For more help, see Help:Table, Help:Tables and VisualEditor, Help:Creating tables, Help:Wikitable, Help:Basic table markup, Help:Table/Advanced, WP:Advanced table formatting, Help:Tables and locations, and Help:Sortable tables. For style info, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables. For accessibility, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial.
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There are several advanced table formatting techniques to improve the display or editing of wikitables in Wikipedia. Most of the tips involve use of standard text-editors. While some special software packages exist, to allow customized editing, they are typically not available when travelling to other computers for wiki-editing.
Some techniques here are beyond the basics described in the Wikipedia help-page "Help:Table" which explains almost all basic options of table formatting, also showing examples of each.