This post explains how to insert an Excel table in Gmail with borders, a super useful tip in many situations. For example, if you want to send a reminder of outstanding liabilities to a customer, you can copy and paste the outstanding liability statement from Excel into the body of your email, then add a salutation, complimentary close, and send it.
To make your emails more attractive and professional, you can apply some simple logic. You can insert subscript and superscript characters, and insert tables in Gmail, but there is a simple workaround for tables.
Many of you have probably tried to insert Excel tables in Gmail in the past. This was not working, but it is working now. However, you may not see the borders sometimes.
Here are quick tips on how to insert an Excel table with borders in Gmail:
Steps to Insert an Excel Table in Gmail with Borders
Here is the correct way to insert an Excel table with borders in Gmail.
Select the table you want to copy and paste into the Gmail body.
Click Format > Format cells to open the Format Cells dialog box.
Click the Border tab.
Under Style, select a line style other than None.
Under Color, select the color you want to apply to the table border.
Click the Outline and Inside borders presets to apply the border with the selected color and style.
Click OK.
Press Ctrl + C to copy the table.
Open Gmail and compose a new email.
Place your cursor in the body of the email where you want to insert the table.
Press Ctrl + V to paste the table.
How to Insert a Table with Borders in Gmail Using Google Sheets
If you already have a table in Google Sheets, you can copy and paste it directly into Gmail. Just make sure that the “Gridlines” option is checked in the View menu > Show in Google Sheets.
Unlike Excel, you don’t need to add borders in Google Sheets by default. You can add borders if you want a different border color or style than the gridlines.
Additional Tip: Add Subscript and Superscript Characters in Gmail
Assume you want to insert H₂O₂ in your Gmail. To do this, you can enter the following formula in any blank cell in Google Sheets or Excel and then copy and paste the result into the cursor position in your email:
="H"&CHAR(8322)&"O"&CHAR(8322)If you want other similar formulas, please check out my tutorial on subscript and superscript numbers in Google Sheets. You will find different options there.
Conclusion
Earlier, it was impossible to insert an Excel table with borders in Gmail without going through Google Sheets or another supported third-party application.
The previous method was to first copy and paste the Excel table into Google Sheets, and then from Google Sheets into Gmail.
Now, this is no longer necessary, as I was able to insert an Excel table with borders directly into Gmail using Excel 365. However, if you have any problems, you can still follow the previous method of going through Google Sheets, or create the table in Google Sheets and then copy and paste it into Gmail.
I am using excel 2013, the stuff explained above works well in another machine where WPS office is installed, but I am getting issues with Office 2013. For doing this needs to copy table into word(To get data and formatting) or in MS Paint if don’t need the data in editable format again.
Is there any setting in gmail itself to get the CSS from excel?
Thank u
Here’s an extension that adds this feature to Gmail: “https://mixmax.com/blog/support-for-tables-in-gmail”
Hi Prashanth, Thanks for the steps, to solve this problem, we have developed a Extension which will do this in One click. CloudCodes Insertable Extension allows the user to paste Microsoft Excel Table in Gmail.
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Thanks a lot!!
You are welcome 🙂
Thank you so much, i was trying to do it via Excel but table wasnt pasting in Email. Thanks a ton 🙂
You are welcome!
pasting an excel table on gmail is easy if you paste the same on ms word first and then copy it from word and paste on gmail. try it !!!
It will also work. Thanks Arun for the suggestion.
highly appreciated!
Your kind words motivate me. Thanks!
Thanks a lot , Your explain are perfect
You are welcome Farid!