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+==== Adjusting Text Alignment ====
 The table cells are left aligned by default, the heading cells are center aligned. You may change this via inline CSS style definitions:
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 ! headline style
 | exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol starts the cell
+|}
+If you want to override the default text alignment for all cells, place the inline CSS (for example <code>style="text-align:center;"</code>) directly at the beginning of the table, right after the <code>class="wikitable"</code> statement.
+==== External helper tools ====
+If you have to construct really complex tables with colspans and rowspans, you may use this online table generator:
+[http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables Generate tables in MediaWiki format - TablesGenerator.com]
+For example, this wiki markup
+ <nowiki>
+{| class="wikitable"
+! colspan="3" | 1
+! 2
+! 3
+|-
+| rowspan="2" | A
+| colspan="3" | B
+| C
+|-
+| rowspan="2" colspan="2" | D
+| colspan="2" | E
+|-
+| F
+| G
+| H
+|}
+</nowiki>
+will be rendered into this table:
+{| class="wikitable"
+! colspan="3" | 1
+! 2
+! 3
+|-
+| rowspan="2" | A
+| colspan="3" | B
+| C
+|-
+| rowspan="2" colspan="2" | D
+| colspan="2" | E
+|-
+| F
+| G
+| H
 |}