Hello,

A reference to a table name such as '2019-Q1-X' is rewritten to '2019-@1$17-X' by org-edit-special. And also for '2019_Q1_X'. v9.2.3

Test case:

      |---+----+--------|
      | # | Q1 | 600.00 |
      |---+----+--------|
      #+TBLFM: @1$3=remote(2019-Q1-X,$total)

      #+NAME: 2019-Q1-X
      |----+--------|
      | _ | total |
      | * | 600.00 |
      |----+--------|

With cursor in 1st table, invoke org-edit-special with: C-x '

Then save the edit with C-c C-c and notice TBLFM is now:

#+TBLFM: @1$3=remote(2019-@1$17-X,$total)

A workaround is to use 1Q instead of Q1 in table name.

--tony