Hi, That does what I want. Thanks for taking the time to explain it. I should have read the manual on relative cell references more carefully.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Michael Brand <michael.ch.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi RCY > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 17:12, RCY <re...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Sorry not to be clearer. > > I would like to implement the formula for only one row. So entering the > > first row shown below and implementing the formula with only B entered in > > the first column in the second row gives the rest of the second row. > > > > > > |A|2|3|4| > > |B|4|6|8| > > > > Your suggestion almost does what I want, except that it applies the > formula > > to every row. I would like to apply different row formulas to succeeding > > rows. > > So you want this: > > | A | 2 | 3 | 4 | > | B | 4 | 6 | 8 | > #+TBLFM: @2$<<..@2$> = 2 * @-1 > > > Also I was not clear about the syntax you used, does <<$<< exclude the > first > > column and >$> indicate up to the last column? > > I tried to modify your formula to restrict it to the second row: > > @2<<$<<..@2>$> = 2 * @-1 > > @< first row > $<< second column > $> last column > @>> second last row > [...] > > See also the manual here: > http://orgmode.org/manual/References.html > > Michael >
