change column width in newsletter

Paula C. Beckerle

I'm trying to design a Newsletter with three columns of text. I insert a 3 Column Table, but can not set the three columns to be equal widths.

Karen Badham

Hey Paula,



You should totally be able to do a three column newsletter. I'm not personally a designer, but we have others here who may be able to help if you post your code.



Thanks!


Karen

Paula C. Beckerle

I'm very new to this and do not know how to change HTML code, but I've pasted it below. I'm trying to set column widths in the simple editor in Spark. Would appreciate any help. Thanks - Paula


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                  January 2013







"Lifting


Lives and


Building


Futures in


Tanzania"


 


 


 


Twitter


 


Independence day...in rural Tanzania?                                               


   Today countless Americans will be celebrating their independence across the country; and rightly so. The Tanzanian Children’s Fund and Rift Valley Children’s Village are also celebrating, although not the liberation of a country but the freeing of Tanzanian women from the bondages of poverty through our micro-finance program!


   Meet Veronica Kazi, 43, known simply as Mama Kazi by her fellow villagers in Camp Nairobi, a workers camp on the coffee plantation where she lives and works.


   Mama Kazi was born in the village of Umbulo where she grew up.  Like most girls from rural Tanzania she took on a whole host of household responsibilities when she was still a young girl.    Married at an early age, she was soon raising a family of her own. Today she is the mother of 8 and has all of her children attending primary school, seconday school or teachers colled: a feat unthinkable if it weren't for the help provided by the Tanzanian Children's Fnud micro-finance program.


  


   The average income in Oldeani for a woman like Veronica varies from $200 to $600 a year. The cost of schooling alone for one child per year can be $350. As a result, most families struggle to send even one of their children for formal secondary education: let alone 8!


   An independent businesswoman, Mama Kazi runs a small shop, known locally as a duka, in the coffee workers housing camp neighboring RVCV.   She was one of the first to join our micro-finance program when it launched in 2008 with an initial loan of approximately $100.  Over the years, and with the continued support of our micro-finance staff through small loans and monthly training seminars, her business grew.


   Her latest loan was for a staggering $1250 and her annual income is now close to $9000 more than enough to provide each of her children with the education they deserve!  Always looking forward, Mama Kazi’s next plan is to move her house and duka to a new plot of land she has bought close to the local town of Karatu.Veronica Kazi – ‘TCF’s small loans program is very good, without it I would have struggled to put my children through school. Life would have been hard!’   TCF’s micro-finance program has been helping more and more people just like Veronica since 2008; today the program is working to grant independence to around 450 Tanzanian families and continues to grow!

Benjamin Whelan




 



 



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Julie Gibson

Hi Paula,



You can do one of two things to resize the columns:



1. Click in one of the table cells, then click the "Table" tab on the far right top of your editor. On the far left of the table options is "Cell Properties". For each cell, you can set % widths. Please note you will need to then colSpan the header and footer areas to equal 3.



2. Click the View tab instead of Table. Click HTML Code, then update the td tags with , etc. For the header and footer td's, use this: .



Julie