As a Digital Coach, I leverage Basecamp in my business and coach others to do so as well. It helps managers better manage and everyone executes better because they know what is expected by when in a simple, easy to understand fashion.
One of the underused elements of Basecamp is it’s ability to render tables for columnar data. I used this when detailing out field, page layout, and formula changes prior to implementing them in Salesforce so they can all be seen at a glance and updated in a Writeboard before ever hitting the Salesforce.com admin portal.
Basecamp renders visual tables very well with the help of Textile.
However, there are many other reasons tables are generally useful. One example is sorting by a specific column. You cannot do this in Basecamp but you can in OpenOffice Calc or Excel. However, if it was easy to go back and forth between them then using the best of each when needed would be feasible. This is what I will be illustrating.
I prefer the former so this tip will be using OpenOffice.
I want to create a table in Basecamp but rather than create it as text and insert the pipe (”|”) symbols, etc. as I go, I start with a new Calc doc and drop in my column headings and fill in the rows.
OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet