Question

I would like to have a column in an org mode table that is a simple monotonically increasing value, i.e. the row number such that wnen I insert and remove random rows the index value adjusts automagically. I suspect that this should be simple but it would appear I am making it way too difficult. Mind you, I am a novice at using Emacs and org mode to build spreadsheets. So a simple example spreadsheet where there are two columns, one the row index value and the other some fixed value, would be a perfect answer.

Answer 1

This example uses @# to get the row number. Similarly, $# returns the column number.

| row | data |
|-----+------|
| 2   | 0303 |
| 3   | 5123 |
| 4   | 41   |
| 5   | 4234 |
#+TBLFM: $1=@#