OK, I'm now happily importing tabulars. Well, mostly. I'm having trouble with the left borders on multicolumnts. I start with:
\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin {tabular} {|p{1.5in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|p{.4in}|} \cline{2-3} \cline{4-5} \cline{6-7} \cline{8-9} \cline{10-11} \cline{12-13} \multicolumn{1}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Exceptional} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Excellent} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Very Good} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Average} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Below Average} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Unsatisfactory} \\ LaTeX correctly renders this with no left border on the 1 cell multicolumn. Lyx loses this, and turns it into |c| If I manually edit the multicolumn in lyx, it will export the correct latex. indeed, a diff shows that the extra | inserted by lyx is the only difference in the two exported latex files. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \