Hi, yes, wonderful, you understood me. Sorry, for not explaining it more correctly. Because I have much text in each cell, colums a and column b, each with much text, and underneath the same, and so on... I can’t create such a nice diagramm like this in emacs yet, so I couldn’ explain it graphically. |---------+---------| > | column1 | column2 | > | alpha | 1 | > | beta | 2 | > | gamma | 3 | > |---------+---------| | column1 | column2 | > | alpha | 1 | > | beta | 2 | > | gamma | 3 | > |---------+---------| | column1 | column2 | > | alpha | 1 | > | beta | 2 | > | gamma | 3 | > |---------+---------| Kind regards Gottfried Am 23.04.23 um 14:55 schrieb Platon Pronko: > On 2023-04-23 20:44, Gottfried wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks for your help. >> >> I tried this already, and it works, but the text is almost a mass. >> it is difficult to put it in order in emacs. >> I would always check both, libreoffice calc and emacs side by side to >> put the text in order in emacs org-mode. >> >> That’s why I was asking that may be there is a better method  where >> the text in emacs org-mode  is more ordered. >> >> If there is no alternative, I have to do it like that. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Gottfried > > Hi! > > As I understand your problem - you are pasting the table contents from > Calc, and getting something like this: > > ``` > column1 column2 column2 > alpha 1 one > beta 2 two > gamma 3 three > ``` > > while you want to get this text formatted as an org table, something > like this: > > ``` > |---------+---------+---------| > | column1 | column2 | column3 | > | alpha   |       1 | one     | > | beta    |       2 | two     | > | gamma   |       3 | three   | > |---------+---------+---------| > ``` > > Is my understanding correct? > --