Here's an example of the table (hope the line breaks are ok)

|Item | Model | price |
| x     | v          | $323.98
| y     | x          | $184.45|
| Total |           | ??          |

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

Christian Moe writes:

You probably don't really want to replace the contents of column 3 ($3)
with a sum of columns including column 3 ($2..$9)?

To get useful help you'll need to provide the table, or a minimal
example of a table with the same structure.

Yours,
Christian

>
> Chris Henderson writes:
>
>> I have a table and would like to add all costs (in $) in column 3 as a
>> total. Wondering how do I do that. I have done "=vsum($2..$9)" - but this
>> hangs my org file and I have to kill it with the -9 switch.
>>
>> Thanks.