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From: Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net>
Subject: Re: Re-align All Tables in a Region.
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:46:20 +0100
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On 18/08/12 09:40, Andrew Young wrote:
Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:
>> I have a file which contains lots of tables. The document is created by a
>> shell script, so when it's opened none of the tables are aligned. Is there a
>> command that will let me re-align all tables in a region? There are a lot of
>> tables, so I don't want to do them one at a time.
>>
>> As a workaround I have used #+STARTUP: align in the buffer, which aligns
>> them if I C-c on the in buffer setting.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>
> Not sure if there is a built-in, but this seems to work for me:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>    (defun my-align-all-tables ()
>      (interactive)
>      (org-table-map-tables 'org-table-align 'quietly))
> #+end_src
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andrew
>
Thanks Andrew, that works perfectly.

Ian.