Orgmode - Table

Introduction

Orgmode provides a minor mode orgtbl-mode, which makes table creating and editing extremely easy.

Any line with | as the first non-whitespace character is treated as a part of a table.

The fastest way to create a table is to directly type |Column1|Column2|Column3 followed by C-c RET. Then a 3-column table will be created immediately, with the head of Column1, Column2, and Column3 respectively.

Keybinding

Keybinding	Functionality
`C-c` \|	Convert the active region to a table.
`C-c SPC`	Clear the current cell.
`C-c C-c`	Re-align the table.
`TAB`	Re-align the table move to the next column.
`S-TAB`	Re-align the table move to the previous column.
`M-a`	Move the beginning of the current cell, or on to the previous cell.
`M-e`	Move the end of the current cell, or on to the next cell.
`RET`	Re-align the table and move to the next row.
`M-left/right`	Move the current column left/right.
`M-up/down`	Move the current row up/down.
`M-S-left`	Kill the current column.
`M-S-up`	Kill the current row.
`M-S-right`	Insert a new column to the right.
`M-S-down`	Insert a new row above.
`C-c -`	Insert a horizontal line below.
`C-u C-c -`	Insert a horizontal line above.
`C-c +`	Sum the numbers in the current column, or a active region.

Alignment and width

<l>, <r>, and <c> can align the column at point to the left, right, and center respectively.
<N> can fix the width of the column at point to N characters.

Reference

Symbol	Reference
`@r`	r-th row
`$c`	c-th column
`@r$c`	The cell in r-th row c-th column
`@r1..@r2`	The rows from r1 to r2
`$c1..$c2`	The columns from c1 to c2