From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Moe Subject: Re: Adding items in table Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:53:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc7j-0000h3-PE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:52:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc7c-0005NE-2S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:52:31 -0400 Received: from mail2.b1.hitrost.net ([91.185.211.205]:22147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZc7b-0005M3-SH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:52:23 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Chris Henderson Cc: org-mode 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.