I am used to my tables aligning nicely when I hit C-c C-c in Linux. In Emacs for OS X (emacsforosx.com) this does not behave on my system.
It works in Aquamacs.
While org-mode is a very flexible tool, it has some very hardcoded limitations in its core functionality. The one you're encountering is the reliance on a monospaced font (such as Andale Mono, Monaco or Menlo to name a few ones your OS X system should come with) to display tables in an aligned fashion.
There are multiple options how you can solve it. If you are already relying on monospaced fonts, set Emacs' default font in your init file to a monospaced one:
(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "Monaco-12")))
Alternatively, customize the org-table face with M-x customize-face RET org-table RET to use a monospaced font to make only org-mode tables display correctly.
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Thanks! I suspected that was the issue, but I apparently did something wrong when I tried to switch to Inconsolata to correct it. – anr78 Dec 20 '14 at 20:15
I was having the same issue in the OS X Emacs 24 window-system. My default font is variable width, so naturally my Org-tables were not aligning properly. To continue with @wasamasa's solution for customizing the font for just the org-table mode and keeping a default variable width font for everything else, I found this solution helpful: `variable-pitch` for org-mode, fixed-pitch for tables?
M-x set-default-font, that should resolve it. – wasamasa Dec 20 '14 at 16:42