Hi,
 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.
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
But that did not work.

Thanks.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi RCY

Do you want to do this?:

| A | 2 |  3 |  4 |
| B | 4 |  6 |  8 |
| C | 8 | 12 | 16 |
#+TBLFM: @<<$<<..@>$> = 2 * @-1


Michael