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Wrap cell content in an org mode table
org-mode has 2 table formats, the default org-table and the other is table.el.
Cell wrapping is available for tables in table.el format.
Try this
Remove the extra row with <10> so your table ...
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How can I filter table in org mode
You can use a multitude of solutions. I assume you want to produce a new table based on an existing one. This involves babel functionality where you define code blocks that produce the new table. The ...
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Can I format cells in an org-mode table differently depending on a formula?
I got whole-table formatting to work with some Elisp:
A formula is evaluated for the cells' contents, and converted to a color using a gradient.
Org file including code:
#+name: item-prices
|-------...
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Reference cells of other tables in org-mode table
You are looking for remote table references:
#+TBLNAME: tab1
| Nº | Description | Value |
|-----+-------------+-------|
| | TOTAL | 1 |
...
#+TBLNAME: tab10
| Nº | Description | ...
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What is the difference between sh and shell for org-babel?
The difference is which shell gets called to evaluate your block. shell calls whatever your default shell is while sh calls /bin/sh specifically. Your default shell is probably bash, which is an ...
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Painfully simple org spreadsheet question
You need 2 things here:
The vmean function (stands for vector mean)
The references @I and @II which stand for the first and second horizontal lines in the table.
So, with the cursor on the draft ...
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How to programmatically update a named org-table in-situ
You can achieve that by naming your results table. Then, the code block will update the same table it used as input.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=mytable
(append table '((1 2 3)))
#+end_src
#+...
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Exporting Org in Landscape
What about putting the following in the export options:
#+LATEX_CLASS: article
#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [landscape]
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[a4paper]{anysize}
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Wrap cell content in an org mode table
Adjust Column Width with Wrap Around
Here is a solution adapted for org-mode 9.1.13, Spacemacs (0.200.13), emacs 26.1 for convenience.
Starting with the following content at a buffer in org-mode:
| ...
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Reference the last column / row in an org-mode table
Two notes to answer your questions.
The first answers your question directly. Take a look at The Org Manual and its section on References.
In short: use @> to refer to the last row.
The example ...
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Generating tables with headers from code block
Just use hline instead of linebreak.
The following works:
* test
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results value table
'(("First" "Second")
hline
(a b) (c d))
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
| First | Second |
...
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How to quickly convert text to org-mode table?
You find the Tbl menu at the right side of the Org menu.
Mark the region you want to convert to an org-table and click on the menu item Tbl -> Convert Region.
The result is a table without header:
...
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Org tables: Wrap all fields in column to a given size
I am new to the Org API and I would be glad if you could give a look to the code and share some comments.
As for the proposed solution, consider the following table:
|---+---------------------------...
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Org capture into org table
Yes, it is. For example, with this org file:
* my table
| blah | blah |
And this elisp:
(custom-set-variables
'(org-capture-templates
(quote
(("t" "Table" table-line
(file+headline "...
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Add cell background colors to org-mode table in pdf export
Getting inspiration from this answer, the following works. You must install the xcolor package as instructed there.
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
* table test
| hi | there ...
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org mode - add formula to generate delta column
Using Calc’s logical operations to handle the first row:
| x | delta |
|---+-------|
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 |
| 1 | -4 |
| 7 | 6 |
#+tblfm: $2=@# < 3 ? 0 : $1-@-1$1
...
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org column view with date calculations
The Org syntax for the DEADLINE event differs from what you use in your question. Instead of
* TODO fix this bug asap
:PROPERTIES:
:UPDATE: writing test cases almost there!
:LASTUPDATED: 2019-11-25
:...
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How to have org-babel treat the first line of a table result as a header?
A rather brute force way is to define a post-processing function to add an hline after the first row.
#+name: addhdr
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var tbl=""
(cons (car tbl) (cons 'hline (cdr tbl)))
#+...
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How to make the org-mode exported table aligned in GMail?
You can export the table to Markdown and use Markdown Here to format the table in your email.
M-x org-md-export-as-markdown will export your document as Markdown, but the tables will be exported as ...
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Auto-update org tables before each export
I found the function you need (with a tiny bit of luck). You just have to add the following function to your before-save-hook.
org-table-recalculate-buffer-tables
Assuming you have no other hooks, ...
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How to select (and copy) a column of an org table *without* rectangle selection?
Actually for org-table-copy-region it isn't necessary to mark the exact column width! Just mark the beginning of the column somewhere in a cell, then the end by going down the required number of rows ...
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How to have the sum of a column (with computed data) in the first row?
You should use cell formulas (prefixed by := instead of =) for your results.
The example below gives the sum of the last column both at the first and the last rows.
| | | 8 |
| Col1 | ...
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Wrap cell content in an org mode table
Once you follow along the accepted answer and fixed the size of a long column in an existing table, toggling table-fixed-width-mode by M-x table-fixed-width-mode seems to do the trick of automatically ...
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help with org-mode table formula
The following #+TBLFM line works for me:
| | Accounts | June 2019 | July 2019 | August 2019 |
|---+-------------+-----------+-----------+-------------|
| | cash | 100 |...
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calculate the sum of the muplication of 2 columns in org table
@4$3=(@2$1..@3$1)*(@2$2..@3$2)
or
@>$>=(@<<$<..@>>$<)*(@<<$<<..@>>$<<)
or
@>$>=(@I$1..@II$1)*(@I$2..@II$2)
using the horizontal lines to ...
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Use Results from Table A in Table B
At the end of section 3.5.1 of org manual there's a discussion of remote references, that's exactly what you're looking for:
You may also reference constants, fields and ranges from a different
...
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How do I insert resizebox code in org-mode tables when exporting to latex?
After some investigation i figured out a solution.
Not sure why I didn't see it before or if table export changed in org-mode at some point.
org-mode export tables default as
\begin{center}
\begin{...
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How to convert org-table to list?
EDIT: Updated code because I had misunderstood what the headings should be, and to switch to s-join because apparently @lap's version of Emacs doesn't have string-join from subr-x (s-join and string-...
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Org mode: Using todo-items or checkboxes in tables
Org mode is so flexible that you have, in addition to the previous answer, a bunch of additional possibilities, if you don't file like coding. This requires a little modification of your setup, but ...
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Preventing Org-Mode PDF Tables from Running Off the Page
Put this code above your table:
#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment longtable :align |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|
You can replace the l with p{*cm} where * can be any numeral as required to fit table to page. e.g.
#+...
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