Excel or table style grid in text cast member

I copied an Excel style table out of MS Word and pasted it
into a text cast member and to my surprise, the grid lines came
with the text, nicely formatted and everything. Having a
spreadsheet like grid (or something like an HTML table) that would
auto fit the contents of each cell sure would help.
Anyone know how to apply grid lines to text cast members I
create from scratch? and are there any formatting options I can
access from lingo to modify the grid?

Check out the data grid in Inplicity, a fantastic set of
add-ins for Director. All Lingo based. They kick butt.
http://www.inplicitytoolkit.com/
best,
FBC

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