Re: [O] insert cell inside an org-mode table?

[John Kitchin]

This looks like exactly the solution Sharon is looking for! What a great
community we have that it even already exists! Thanks for pointing to it.

Michael Brand writes:

> Hi Sharon
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Sharon Kimble
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Okay, imagine that you have this table -
>>
>> | fruit  | one        | two        |
>> |--------+------------+------------|
>> | pear   | orange     | grape      |
>> | banana | grapefruit | satsuma    |
>> | tomato | potato     | clementine |
>>
>> And you discover that you've missed out apples and you want to put them
>> where 'grapefruit' currently is, I would like the following to happen -
>>
>> | fruit  | one        | two        |
>> |--------+------------+------------|
>> | pear   | orange     | grape      |
>> | banana | apple      | satsuma    |
>> | tomato | grapefruit | clementine |
>> |        | potato     |            |
>>
>> Where the rest of the column gets shifted downwards by one cell.
>>
>> Now that is a very simplistic table, the one that I'm hoping to build
>> will be 6 columns by about 60 rows, so having the ability to shift rows
>> downwards from inserting a cell would be vital to its successful usage.
>
> This is not built-in but you can look here at the last example:
> "Rearrange one or more field within the same row or column"
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-same-row-or-column
>
> Michael


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