Exploiting the possibility for `:fmt` to be a function it can be done as follows: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{comment} \begin{document} \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND table-name orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :fmt (lambda (str) (format "%.2f" (string-to-number str))) | 1.000 | 2.000 | \end{comment} \begin{tabular}{lrr} % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL table-name % END RECEIVE ORGTBL table-name \end{tabular} \end{document}