Re: insert cell inside an org-mode table?

[Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>]

Hi Sharon

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Sharon Kimble
<boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> 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