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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Subject: Re: Filling a list of dates in a spreadsheet
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:13:07 +0100
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Hi,

S-<RET> (Shift-Return) is your friend. After you've entered the first
two dates, move down to the third row (which needs to be empty), and hit
S-<RET>. You can continue pressing S-<RET> without moving down a row
each time.

Yours,
Christian



Cameron Horsburgh writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm putting together a spreadsheet in org-mode. This is the general format:
>
> |----------------------+---------------+--------------------|
> | Date                 | Field One     | Field Two          |
> |----------------------+---------------+--------------------|
> | [2016-02-07 Sun]     |               |                    |
> | [2016-02-14 Sun]     |               |                    |
> | [A few lines]        |               |                    |
> | [A few more lines]   |               |                    |
> | [2016-12-25 Sun]     |               |                    |
> |----------------------+---------------+--------------------+
>
> The date column needs to have a list of dates for every Sunday this year.
> In a traditional spreadsheet program there would be a function to 'fill'
> the series of dates automatically. I can't see anything in org-mode that
> would do this. Am I missing something, or will I just have to do it
> manually?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cameron Horsburgh