hi, Tim, thanks for the reply.
> I don't know. It could be related to the spreadsheet capabilities or it > could simply be an oversight in how the code extracts values from > tables. if anyone has any knowledge in this area, i'd be curious to hear. > I tend to use the function org-table-to-list to extract the data from a > table. It gives me a nested list which I can then process with elisp in > any way I want. I don't know if that would help or how it will interpret > a cell whic contains both quoted and unquoted data. for the record, things -- lists and lisps -- being equal, the function you presumably meant to write was =org-table-to-lisp=. =org-babel-ref-resolve= is convenient to use (as you provide a REF, rather than create a [temp] buffer, visit the file, whatever). but, it isn't clear to me what functions (=org-babel-ref-resolve= and/or =org-table-to-lisp=) should be considered part of the "Emacs Org Mode API". :) (i've gotten "around" the issue by prepending my e-mail addresses with [: SPACE].) cheers, Greg