Monospace font in comments

[Ben_Boyle]

Trying to work around a lack of tables, I resorted to attempting to use monospaced font and padding my data with spaces. Reference to this guide: How to Format Text in Asana • Asana Product Guide

Problems encountered:

1. There’s no UI button in the text formatting I can see to set the text to monospaced
2. The markdown backtick is inconsistent, after being used once in the comment seems to never work again.
3. The cmd-shift-m keyboard shortcut conflicts with Chrome’s account management and brings up my user profile.

[lpb]

@Ben_Boyle,

For some reason, I’m not running into your #2 and #3 issues (current Chrome on Mac).

FWIW, I wrote this post a long time ago about inserting tables in Asana task descriptions which, if it still works, should work in Comments too:

How to create a table in Asana?

Here’s a workaround that may help you. (If not, it’s still helpful to keep this solution in the bag of tricks for other needs.) In Word or another app (it works in various apps and I assume Outlook too), select and copy (Cmd-C) your table content: [image] Go to Plain Text Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com and do File > New Table…: [image] Now do Paste table data… then in the dialog paste (Cmd-V) the copied content and click Load, resulting in: [image] Click the “Copy to Cli…

You can create real tables in Asana but only in the Overview Project Brief currently.

Hope that might be of some help,

Larry