Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.  Now it would appear that we have what we want to achieve.  We're able to type in column 1 and it wraps just fine.   Now we are able to type in column 2 (which in our table is actually column 3 - we're using column 2 as a divider area between columns 1 and 3.

                                                     

This is text that we're going to be putting in full width with just a small margin on the left and right sides.  Notice that our typing now is in one cell that just wraps.  Something isn't 100% correct, because I told the properties that I wanted a cell width of 900 (the webpage is 910) and that I wanted a colored background, which is fine, but I'm typing beyond the background color in the first line and missing most of the word "cell".  I think we've got it now.  I made this cell just a bit more narrow, and the right end of the cell behaves the way it should.  It's like there's an invisible margin in which nothing appears if you get too close to the sides of the page.