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From: Andrew Young <youngar17@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re-align All Tables in a Region.
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:40:00 -0400
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Hi Ian,

On 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