Creating Tables by hand (noy using the add/create table button)

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I would like to be able to just start typing a table. But even after studying the markdown with a plain text editor like VIM and seeing how it is done, somehow I cannot create a table that way and I just have to use the UI, which slows me down tremendously.

Am I missing something or were tables never intended to be created manually?

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Sure, you can type them. This is the minimal table that is recognized:

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One thing that might trip you up is that tables must have the separator row below the header row. This is to follow the GitHub markdown table standard.

| Header |
|--------|
| Row 1  |
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Yes thank you, I never realised the seperator row was required (never having used GitHub).