This looks like an old org bug that has been fixed in newer versions. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:06 PM Neil Jerram wrote: > I just tried this with > > Org mode version 9.1.5 (release_9.1.5-1784-g772949 @ > /home/neil/src/org-mode/lisp/) > > and I don't see the problem with that version. What version do you have? > > > On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 19:48, Charles R (Charlie) Martin < > chasrmartin@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This seems like an unlikely bug because it's very basic to org-mode >> tables, but if I'm doing something wrong I sure can't figure out what. >> >> I have this table: >> >> | Date | Count | Pages | >> |------------------------+-------+-------| >> | 2019-Aug-03 (Sat, 215) | 2069 | 7 | >> | | | | >> >> but when I hit TAB or C-c C-c to reformat the table it is displayed as >> in the screenshot >> >> [image: Screenshot 2019-08-03 12.44.51.png] >> >> Copying the text with M-w is still the same. >> >> | Date | Count | Pages | >> |------------------------+-------+-------| >> | 2019-Aug-03 (Sat, 215) | 2069 | 7 | >> | | | | >> >> I'm immensely puzzled. >> >> Signed >> Immensely puzzled >> >