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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Format a whole column using ";%.2f" in orgtbl?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:01:35 +0200
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To: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
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Hi Alexander

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:34 PM, AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Desired outoput:
>
> | 100.00 | Value |
> | 150.00 | Value |
> #+TBLFM: $1=%s;%.2f
>
> [...]

What you tried would be

| 100.00 | Value |
| 150.00 | Value |
#+TBLFM: $1=$0;%.2f

$0 is the current table field. What I recommend is

| 100.00 | Value |
| 150.00 | Value |
#+TBLFM: $1 = $0 +.0; f-2

because of the behavior I explained in the tables shown here:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#table-float-fraction

Michael