Now
this is a problem... If you are talking about fonts and tables in something like MS
Word... they have a proprietory way of embedding this in the document, and it will look like garbage to you ( this is because they are not saving the document as text, they are saving it as binary ). If you are talking about fonts and tables in HTML, this is not as much of a problem, just use a JEditorPane instead of a JTextArea, since JEditorPane understands basic HTML...
-Nate