Forget all previous emails from me on this thread; I thought there was a simple way to do this in OrgMode--will this work for you Wang?: All you have to do is this I believe (not sure about the Org publish/TeX output though--tell me if it works out for you): Ca | and then type in your multi-line text--and maybe a few times--this took about 15 seconds: |---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------| | * | 15B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------| | * | 16W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | multi | | | | | | | | | line | | | | | | | | | text | |---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------| | * | 17B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------| #+TBLFM: