diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e8714c13..83832acc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tabwriter"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 dependencies = [
  "unicode-width 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde 1.0.75 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde_derive 1.0.75 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "streaming-stats 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "tabwriter 1.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "tabwriter 1.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "threadpool 1.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum streaming-stats 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "4f233aa550ceeb22c47cff12e167f7bc89c03e265e7fcff64b8359bb6799e0f4"
 "checksum strsim 0.7.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bb4f380125926a99e52bc279241539c018323fab05ad6368b56f93d9369ff550"
 "checksum syn 0.14.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "261ae9ecaa397c42b960649561949d69311f08eeaea86a65696e6e46517cf741"
-"checksum tabwriter 1.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9128e3a9149e51494cad59712a286e149fcb74e443d2298d69bd6eaa42cc4ebb"
+"checksum tabwriter 1.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "36205cfc997faadcc4b0b87aaef3fbedafe20d38d4959a7ca6ff803564051111"
 "checksum thread_local 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c6b53e329000edc2b34dbe8545fd20e55a333362d0a321909685a19bd28c3f1b"
 "checksum threadpool 1.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "e2f0c90a5f3459330ac8bc0d2f879c693bb7a2f59689c1083fc4ef83834da865"
 "checksum ucd-util 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "fd2be2d6639d0f8fe6cdda291ad456e23629558d466e2789d2c3e9892bda285d"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 051fb3d1..d846a701 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ regex = "1"
 serde = "1"
 serde_derive = "1"
 streaming-stats = "0.2"
-tabwriter = "1"
+tabwriter = "1.2"
 threadpool = "1.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/cmd/table.rs b/src/cmd/table.rs
index 7a500936..c361ad04 100644
--- a/src/cmd/table.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/table.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::convert::From;
 
 use csv;
-use tabwriter::TabWriter;
+use tabwriter::{Alignment, TabWriter};
 
 use CliResult;
 use config::{Config, Delimiter};
@@ -24,7 +25,10 @@ table options:
                            [default: 2]
     -p, --pad <arg>        The minimum number of spaces between each column.
                            [default: 2]
-    -c, --condense <arg>  Limits the length of each field to the value
+    -a, --align <arg>      How entries should be aligned in a column.
+                           Options: \"left\", \"right\", \"center\".
+                           [default: left]
+    -c, --condense <arg>   Limits the length of each field to the value
                            specified. If the field is UTF-8 encoded, then
                            <arg> refers to the number of code points.
                            Otherwise, it refers to the number of bytes.
@@ -43,9 +47,27 @@ struct Args {
     flag_pad: usize,
     flag_output: Option<String>,
     flag_delimiter: Option<Delimiter>,
+    flag_align: Align,
     flag_condense: Option<usize>,
 }
 
+#[derive(Deserialize, Clone, Copy)]
+enum Align {
+    Left,
+    Right,
+    Center,
+}
+
+impl From<Align> for Alignment {
+    fn from(align: Align) -> Self {
+        match align {
+            Align::Left => Alignment::Left,
+            Align::Right => Alignment::Right,
+            Align::Center => Alignment::Center,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn run(argv: &[&str]) -> CliResult<()> {
     let args: Args = util::get_args(USAGE, argv)?;
     let rconfig = Config::new(&args.arg_input)
@@ -56,7 +78,8 @@ pub fn run(argv: &[&str]) -> CliResult<()> {
 
     let tw = TabWriter::new(wconfig.io_writer()?)
         .minwidth(args.flag_width)
-        .padding(args.flag_pad);
+        .padding(args.flag_pad)
+        .alignment(args.flag_align.into());
     let mut wtr = wconfig.from_writer(tw);
     let mut rdr = rconfig.reader()?;
 
diff --git a/tests/test_table.rs b/tests/test_table.rs
index 548c4594..cbea9a50 100644
--- a/tests/test_table.rs
+++ b/tests/test_table.rs
@@ -23,3 +23,39 @@ abcdefg  a    a
 a        abc  z\
 ")
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn table_right_align() {
+    let wrk = Workdir::new("table");
+    wrk.create("in.csv", data());
+
+    let mut cmd = wrk.command("table");
+    cmd.arg("--align");
+    cmd.arg("right");
+    cmd.arg("in.csv");
+
+    let got: String = wrk.stdout(&mut cmd);
+    assert_eq!(&*got, concat!(
+"     h1   h2  h3\n",
+"abcdefg    a  a\n",
+"      a  abc  z",
+    ));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn table_center_align() {
+    let wrk = Workdir::new("table");
+    wrk.create("in.csv", data());
+
+    let mut cmd = wrk.command("table");
+    cmd.arg("-a");
+    cmd.arg("center");
+    cmd.arg("in.csv");
+
+    let got: String = wrk.stdout(&mut cmd);
+    assert_eq!(&*got, concat!(
+"  h1     h2   h3\n",
+"abcdefg   a   a\n",
+"   a     abc  z",
+    ));
+}