"lame", Zag24 ? AH, you mean you prefer style over substance ... got it ! <evil grin>
Nah, seriously, as a GM I find fixed text character sheets far easier to update and manage, and they have the advantage that they look the same here in RPoL as they do in the .txt file I store offline. Additionally, since I have such familiarity with the format and there's been little variation between various editions or systems with the fixed text character sheets, when I'm looking at my own characters' sheets as a player myself I can find things quickly and easily, without having to change mental gears to adapt. After all, I game for the role-playing, not to crunch numbers. But if others prefer to work with sheets that have much fancier formatting, then good luck to them. :>
My interest in easy grids is not for use in character sheets, but so I can produce very quick maps on the fly - shading cells to represent solid earth/stone/walls etc ie revealing the outlines of rooms and corridors.
Thanks for the # tag, jase (AND wholeheartedly echoing Zag24's lavish praise of preview so I could test it all out before I posted) ... but it doesn't seem to be working for me. :<
From your notes, I thought it might be because I didn't put it on the first (header) line, in which case I was going to ask could it be extended to the whole table, not just the header, but when I tried the header, that didn't happen either.
Keyed as:
+---+---+---+
|# 1 | 2 | 3 |
+---+---+---+
| 4 |# 5 | 6 |
+---+---+---+
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
+---+---+---+
Soo ... what arcane gesture did I miss ? ;>
Not hung up on the #, so please feel free to substitute anything you like - I picked # cos it looked like quick hand drawn shading ... and to be honest, there weren't many other free keys left !