Nick, sorry for the confusion, you are right, I was not clear ...
> I don't understand what you did exactly: you installed a new version. > Does that version include the patch? Check org-table.el around line 439: > if the function just has a `lines' argument then it most likely includes > the patch. I hope you did not try to apply the patch on top of that. > If you did, go back, throw away the patch file (it's not useful any > longer), and reinstall. Ok I did the following and found something strange: First I installed 8.2.7b.zip and installed it in my homedir (without) patch and I found out the same error: Edit formulas C-c ' throws me to the end of another line and I cannot see the formula anymore as I wrote above. After that I installed org-8.2.6, an older version, in my homedir (without patch) and everything works fine, emacs jumps from field to field in the formula. So I was wrong, it has nothing to do with the patch, there is something different between version org-8.7b and version 8.6.0, which produces this error I guess. I will now try to install your version from latest maint, see what happens and report!! Regards Th. Grothe