when archiving sections or exclude them from export I would expect them being exempt from being evaluated during export. The section archived or marked as ~:no export:~ is still evaluated and there is an error if the reference in the include file is no longer available. I get the error message ~"org-export-expand-include-keyword: Cannot include file ~/filename.org"~ ----- MY PROJECTS -*- mode: org; -*- * Heading ** sub ** Table to be ignored :noexport: #+INCLUDE: filename.org::Table_to_ignore * Archive :ARCHIVE:noexport: ** Table to be ignored :ARCHIVE: #+INCLUDE: filename.org::Table_to_ignore ----- Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 Package: Org mode version 9.0.5 (9.0.5-elpaplus @ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170210/) -- Stefan