Org tutorial for tables
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Creating a table
While typing
The easiest way to create a table is to directly type the "|" character at the beginning of a line, or after any amount of white space. This will put you in the first field of an atomic table.
| This is the content of the first cell
Once you've finished editing this cell, you can jump to the next one by
pressing TAB
. Since the row you just started only contains one cell,
the next cell is really the first cell of the next row.
| This is the content of the first cell | | < Here I am after pressing TAB |
By creating the structure and filling it
You can also create a table from scratch with C-c |
. You will be
asked for the structure of the table, the default being 5x2 (see
org-table-default-size
), five columns and two rows:
| | | | | | |---+---+---+---+---| | | | | | |
Then you can jump from one field to another with the TAB
key (jump to
the next cell) or S-<TAB>
(jump to the previous cell). RET
will
jump to the to the next cell in the same colum, and create a new column
if there is no such cell (or if the next row is beyond a separator
line.)
By converting a region into a table
Org provides useful ways of converting a region into a table. For this,
select a region and press C-c |
. For example, press C-c |
on this:
some, comma, separated, values
will automagically produce this:
| some | comma | separated | values |
Usually, this command should be smart enough to guess what is the field
separator for the region. If each line of the active region contains a
TAB
or a comma, it will assume this is the separator.
- If you want to force the comma as a field separator, press
C-u C-c |
. - If you want to force TAB as a field separator, press
C-u C-u C-c |
. - If you want to force a specific number of spaces – say 3 – use
C-u 3 C-c |
.
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