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Subject: Re: About range references in the spreadsheet
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To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hi Xue, Eric and Dieter,

dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:

> (I would avoid the ambiguous expression "column two" since it is a
> relative specification) alternatively
>
>   The TWO REFERENCES expand to a field range from the row above the
>   current row, starting with two columns to the left up to the current
>   column.

Yes... but this is a bit long.

I finally used this:

@@-1$-2..@@-1   @r{in the first row up, 3 fields from 2 columns on the left}

Implicitely, the sentence ends with "up to the current one", which I
think can be assumed to be obvious here.

Let me know if you think this is still confusing.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien