lumns spanned by the cell. The default is 1.
The maximum value is 65535.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

<B><I><FONT SIZE=-1>COLUMNS="value"</FONT></I></B>
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provides general formatting information concerning the columns.
At present, the only legal value is "*", which causes a vertical rule to
appear between every cell in every row.
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<B><I><FONT SIZE=-1>FACE="fontname"</FONT></I></B>
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specifies the font to use within the scope of
&lt;FONT&gt;...&lt;/FONT&gt;.
This can be 
overridden by a