org mode table formatting problem

Question

I'm on Windows 7 using emacs version GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2015-04-11 on LEG570.

When I create tables with org-mode, I end up having something like this.
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I searched and found the following questions:

1. org mode table formatting issue - The answer to this question was to use a monospaced (non-propotional font). In my case I'm using consolas which is a monospace font. So the answer does not apply.
2. org-mode table layout - The answer to this question is also to use a monospaced font - So does not apply for my case.
3. org-mode table editor behaves strangely - This question remains unanswered.

I don't remember from when this thing had broken. I suspected that the contents (some tag settings etc) might be causing this erratic behaviour and created a new test.org file. It was no different as shown below.
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Note: Are there any updates to org-mode which will fix this issue? BTW, my org-version is
Org mode version 9.1.5 (9.1.5-1-gb3ddb0-elpaplus @ c:/Users/path/to/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20171225/) and I have not been able to update my org-plus-contrib package since Jan 2018.

Answer 1

You are on a 2-month old Org stable version. This issue has long been fixed. Try the latest Org stable from Org Elpa.

Update Org using instructions on https://orgmode.org/elpa.html.

Answer 2

The problem seemed to be with updating the org version as Kaushal Modi pointed out.

Steps to fix this issue:

1. I downloaded the latest org-plus-contrib-yyyymmdd from elpa. The file is available only in .tar extension. (Convert that to ZIP online if you do not have archive program that can handle tar extension)
2. I extracted the ZIP archive into C:\Users\path_to\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d directory and restarted emacs.
3. After restart, ran M-x org-version and the version had changed to 9.1.6 from 9.1.5

This fixed the table formatting issue. (I'm not a 100% sure of the cause of the problem, but this update fixed things, the way they should be)