HTML on Google Docs pages

I was creating a list of students when I said to myself, "I know there is a way to create tables in HTML and I see this tab on the Doc page that indicates I can edit this page in HTML." It took just a minute to find a reference to the table tags and shortly I had a table with the student names spread out horizontally across the page rather than a list straight down. I see some real potential with Google Docs by implementing the features of HTML.