Due to some silly things I want right on my spreadsheet budget, I am having trouble copying the equations easily, and by hand is a pain, there has to be a better way.
While I work on it, I did most of it by hand to be ready, in February I plan on recording which store we go to and how often, my goal is to make it once a week for BJs (I was earlier aiming for less, but we get gas there, and we can't do that less than once a week) and every third week for the other 3. (harris teeter, aldis, and food lion)
The less you go the less you spend, and I want to spend less, though I have plenty budgeted.
Anyway I set up the form for that, so I have no excuse when I go shpping Friday-or Saturday (at Bjs and aldis, not food lion- I hope) not to fill it in properly.
Should make DH happy because the church is sponsering a food bank thing and I want him to buy some stuff for it, aldis seems like the perfect place for a tighwad to find things to donate. No offense to the recipients, but one can of corn is like another...
Though I am glad I read, oh phooey was it contrarys blog? about not all knowing how to cook? I am aiming for simple, though he list doesn't say pasta, wonder why not, posta topped with tomato sauce is way easy.
Oh well, canned fruit, veggies, and maybe meat if they have it it is.
Preparing for February
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February 8th, 2007 at 02:02 pm 1170943360
I have a spreadsheet that I use for budgeting.
I don't bother to use different tabs.
If you wanted, I could e-mail you the spreadsheet.
Everything autocalculates as usual, but the spreadsheet totals for checking/savings/retirement savings also change color as needed to warn you of possible problems (it uses red, yellow, and green). I also hide columns as the month moves on (and the bills are paid), that way I don't have to worry about another tab.
And copy/paste has been simple in Windows since Window 3.0. Select what you want to copy, and press Ctrl+C, move to where you want to copy it to, and press Ctrl+V.
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I would be very interested to know how to make them automatically change color.....
February 8th, 2007 at 06:17 pm 1170958638
Another thing that a lot of folks don't know about is (since Window 95), if you saw something on your screen, but couldn't figure out how to copy/paste it. You can press Alt+PrintScreen, and that captures the currently displayed window, or pressing PrintScreen will copy the entire screen. Then you can CTRL+V (or paste) it into a Word document, Wordpad, Paint, or any other product that works on the Windows platform.
February 8th, 2007 at 06:20 pm 1170958850
but for print screen there must be something differnt, I do that all the time to get a screen shot, but it pastes a picture......which is handy if you are too lazy to pdf it and want just to show the work, not allow changes. Or if you want to share your christmas card real quick online.
But then I never tried removing the bars first..guess it would work if you didn't have so much graphics?
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