I just tried this with

Org mode version 9.1.5 (release_9.1.5-1784-g772949 @
/home/neil/src/org-mode/lisp/)

and I don't see the problem with that version.  What version do you have?


On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 19:48, Charles R (Charlie) Martin <
chasrmartin@gmail.com> wrote:

> This seems like an unlikely bug because it's very basic to org-mode
> tables, but if I'm doing something wrong I sure can't figure out what.
>
> I have this table:
>
> | Date                   | Count | Pages |
> |------------------------+-------+-------|
> | 2019-Aug-03 (Sat, 215) | 2069  |     7 |
> |                        |       |       |
>
> but when I hit TAB or C-c C-c to reformat the table it is displayed as in
> the screenshot
>
> [image: Screenshot 2019-08-03 12.44.51.png]
>
> Copying the text with M-w is still the same.
>
> | Date                   | Count | Pages |
> |------------------------+-------+-------|
> | 2019-Aug-03 (Sat, 215) |  2069 |     7 |
> |                        |       |       |
>
> I'm immensely puzzled.
>
> Signed
> Immensely puzzled
>