By default, Emacs loads packages after it loads your Emacs init file.

We recommend intializing packages as early as possible in your Emacs init file so that your Org configuration will be correctly handled:

;; -*- emacs-lisp -*- (package-initialize) ;; Initialize & Install Package ;; (setq org-...) ;; Your custom settings

The package initialization should happen before you require Org and set any Org options.

Also, you may want to set up Package correctly before initializing it:

;; -*- emacs-lisp -*- ( unless package-archive-contents ;; Refresh the packages descriptions (package-refresh-contents)) ( setq package-load-list '(all)) ;; List of packages to load ( unless (package-installed-p 'org) ;; Make sure the Org package is (package-install 'org)) ;; installed, install it if not (package-initialize) ;; Initialize & Install Package ;; (setq org-...) ;; Your custom settings

See the GNU Emacs Package manual for details.