From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: org tables Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:59:03 -0600 Message-ID: <8762eejugo.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5qyz-0002e0-Hc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:59:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5qyx-0007jZ-J4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:59:09 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:45695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5qyx-0007jR-5j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:59:07 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8960120FDE for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:59:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Peter Salazar's message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:20:23 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Peter Salazar Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Peter, Peter Salazar writes: > Is there a way to get org to wrap text within a table cell? I want to > be able to enter long text entries into cells without expanding column > width.=C2=A0 > > Also, is there a way to merge cells=E2=80=94say, three cells vertically? This question sounded familiar, so I dug up this ancient post from the list which offers some answers: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10478 The link to the manual in the email is broken. The relevant section of the manual is: 3.2 Column width and alignment (info "(org) Column width and alignment") Best, Matt