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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Hide table columns on export
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:38:15 -0400
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Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> Is there a way to hide certain columns of a table when exporting? 
> 
> I know the "/" will hide rows, and "<>" can group columns, but haven't
> been able to find any way to hide certain columns on export? The
> rationale being that I use some column for intermediary calculations
> that I don't want to see in the export.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers!

I don't know of any way to do that within org and it might be a nice
feature to have.

But it's always good to remember that "it's all just text (TM)" and
you have emacs as well as org backing you up.

In this particular case, you could easily kill the columns you don't
want to export (with M-S-left in a table context), do the export (C-c e
h or whatever) and then undo (C-x u) enough times to get back to where
you started.

Nick