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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:25:04 +0100
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Hi Matt,

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a project which will require me to enter about a paragraph in each
> of 5 fields several times a day. I would use org tables, but I need to be
> able to see the table contents in the buffer, and org hides long lines. I
> tried using table.el but it feels incredibly clumsy - for instance, I can't
> find a way to add a row to the end of the table, which seems crazy.

AFAIK there's no "word-wrap for tables" (but it would be cool).

I never figured out tabel.el, either.  I don't 

> I am wondering  what other people do in this situation - I guess I could
> use a spreadsheet or an odt document but I would much rather stay in emacs
> if I can.

I'm sure you are already aware of this, but the only way I can think of is
the following:

|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| <5>   | <5>   | <5>   | <5>   | <5>   |
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|       |       |       |       |       |
#+TBLFM: 

Which will truncate the column at <5> characters and where you can edit a
cell with "C-c `"...

—Rasmus

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