>>Let me try with the u tag. I just want that column to look like it's a link but I don't want to use a href to actually make it a link.
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>>UPDATE. Did a quick Google search and this tag is deprecated. Is there anything else?
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>Yes, you can CSS that.

and in addition using CSS, selectors like hover could be used to implement appearance change when the mouse moves over the "link".
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_hover.asp