Hello,

Frederic Gilbert <fredericgilb...@laposte.net> writes:

> To limit the width of the first column (which can be much longer than 
> the example, and push the 2 other columns beyond the frame's width), I 
> am used to use the width specification, as in:
>
>    | Title                                   |    + |   - |
>    |-----------------------------------------+------+-----|
>    | <20>                                    |      |     |
>    | Money in                                | 4000 |     |
>    | Money out 1 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla |      | 200 |
>    | Money out 2                             |      |  50 |
>    |-----------------------------------------+------+-----|
>    | *Total*                                 |      | 150 |
>
>    #+TBLFM: @>$3=vsum(@5$2..@-1$2)-vsum(@5$3..@-1$3)
>
> I ask for a 20 characters width in this example, but the problem I 
> encounter is not related to the specified number of characters.
>
> In Org 8.2.10, this worked, and, in the example above, the long line 
> would be truncated to 20 characters with the "=>" sign indicating that 
> there is some text beyond the column right border.

Use <C-c TAB> in the first column. It is a change introduced in Org 9.2.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

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