Assuming you never want to use strike-through text (who does?), you can customise (or otherwise modify) the variable `org-emphasis-alist` to remove the entry for "+". Will On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Bastien wrote: > Neal Becker writes: > > > How do I put such an item in a table without org table > > misinterpreting it? > > You can't. > > -- > Bastien > > -- Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia