Dear Carsten , Thanks ! That's exactly what I was in need of: a combination of a column-formula and relative references in the formula. So far, so good. Now, I have the formula line like this #+TBLFM: $5=@-1$5 + @-0$3 - @-0$4 and the very line I typed the formula gets calculated fine. If I want another line into the bus, I go to the empty field in the same column in another line, and go to the Calculate menu, and choose recalculate line, and the fine result appears there , as expected. But if I approach Calculate / Recalculate all , in fact , nothing happens. I tried many times, without result. Recalc line works perfectly, but that does not seem what I'm looking for, which would be a recalculation of all the fields in the column that holds my column-formula. I'll continue reading until I find out, but if you come up with an answer earlier I'd be grateful in advance ! :-) best , haroldo 2009/8/3 Carsten Dominik > Hi Haroldo, > > > You cannot copy a formula easily from one field t the next with > shifting the reference like you would do in a normal spreadsheet. > However, you can use relative references (see the manual) in > order to write formulas in an invariant way, and then use basic > editing commands in the C-c ' buffer to define the formula for > many fields. Even better, use a column formula which allows > you to write a single formula for an entire column. > > - Carsten > > > On Aug 3, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Haroldo Stenger wrote: > > hi , I wonder how can a formula in a table be "copied" to a location >> below, and its references be shifted alongwise automatically. I checked >> every documentation I've found , but that "feature" does not show up. I'm >> forced to copy the formula in in the C-c ' and then go to each of the >> references and type S-downarrow as many times. I'd thank any idea here. >> >> best regards, haroldo. >> (thanks for org-mode, it's great) >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> > >