Hi Eddward
Does this do what you want?
* wealth management
|--------------------------+---------+---------|
| item | amount | balance |
|--------------------------+---------+---------|
| paid | 50.00 | 50.00 |
| baby's new part of shoes | -25.00 | 25.00 |
| chip | -2.50 | 22.50 |
| my birthday! | 100.00 | 122.50 |
| speeding fine :( | -200.00 | -77.50 |
|--------------------------+---------+---------|
#+TBLFM: $3=vsum(@-I$-1..$-1);f2
By explicitly doing the summation, I avoid any dependence on the order
in which each row is calculated. I think that your version fails
because your formula makes no sense for the first row: you can't add a
string ("total") to a float (50.00).
Cheers
Will
On 6/5/07, Eddward DeVilla <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble trying to figure out what I've got wrong here.
> Given the table
>
> * wealth management
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> | item | amount | total |
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> | paid | 50.00 | |
> | baby's new part of shoes | -25.00 | |
> | chip | -2.50 | |
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> #+TBLFM: $3='(+ @-1 $-1)
>
>
> I would expect to get the results
>
> * wealth management
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> | item | amount | total |
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> | paid | 50.00 | 50.00 |
> | baby's new part of shoes | -25.00 | 25.00 |
> | chip | -2.50 | 22.50 |
> |--------------------------+--------+-------|
> #+TBLFM: $3='(+ @-1 $-1)
>
>
> But instead I just get
>
> * wealth management
> |--------------------------+--------+--------|
> | item | amount | total |
> |--------------------------+--------+--------|
> | paid | 50.00 | #ERROR |
> | baby's new part of shoes | -25.00 | #ERROR |
> | chip | -2.50 | #ERROR |
> |--------------------------+--------+--------|
> #+TBLFM: $3='(+ @-1 $-1)
>
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something. Is a table like this even possible?
>
> Edd
>
>
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