Live stat - percentage change

[tvonbrasch]

Hi

Very often I want to compare the level of a series at some time with an earlier date. For example, I often write sentences such as: "Housing prices are now X per cent higher than in january 2017". But to find that number I typically have to use the @element function. for example:

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@elem(pbol_en_sa,"2017m10")/@elem(pbol_en_sa,"2017m01")-1

It would be nice if I could just hold in the CTRL button to mark two different cells in the spreadsheet view and then this statistic would be shown in the status bar as a part of live statistics.

Or maybe there is another and easier way to do this operation?
Thomas

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[EViews Jason]

Unfortunately our spreadsheets do not support non-sequential selections. You will have to continue manually performing the calculation.