I don't totally understand what you want to do. You can insert a row or
column into a table.

    org-table-insert-column
    org-table-insert-row

Are you trying to do something different than that?

John

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On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
wrote:

>
> I maintain my 'DrugFacts' website in mediawiki. I write my article in
> org-mode, export to mediawiki, correct the citations, then cut and paste
> into my mediawiki page. And it all works very well.
>
> But the front-page is a right swine! Here is the first two rows of my
> mediawiki front-page -
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> {| <!-- class="wikitable" -->
> | '''Illegal'''
> | '''Category's'''
> | '''Legal'''
> | '''Prescription only'''
> | '''Substitute'''
> | '''Others'''
> |-
> |* [[Amphetamines]]
> |* [[:Category:Anaesthetics|Anaesthetics]]
> |* [[Alcohol]]
> |* [[Alprazolam]]
> |* [[Buprenorphine]]
> |* [[Flumazenil]]
> |-
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> And because writing mediawiki tables leads to brain damage, and a desire
> to consume 6 pints of beer as the world is going to end in ten minutes,
> according to Douglas Adams and Ford Prefect, I'm intending to create the
> table in org-mode and then export to mediawiki, correct as necessary,
> and upload. Which brings me to my question.
>
> Is it possible to insert a cell *inside* an org-mode table please, and
> auto-shuffle other rows/columns about to fit? According to the 'Table'
> menu in emacs, there isn't a way of doing it, and neither does the
> org-mode manual say that it can be done. But perhaps other people have
> found a way of doing it please?
>
> Hopefully thanks
> Sharon.
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