Money Saving Spreadsheet to use in addition to Martin's

Wow - 837 Downloads to date! That's pretty amazing and I hope you are all saving some money! :T

Thanks Purplemoon - the savings pot section is great (even if I do say so myself ! He he)- I just love seeing the 'tower' change month to month and it inspires me for Christmas/holidays etc. :j

The monthly 'frills' section has made me aware that I was spending alot on Entertainment and 'miscellaneous' so have cut down on these loads. Plus we did one for our joint account, and realised 'extras' that were nothing to do with bills were amounting to an average £65 a month - no wonder our joint account was overdrawn - by around £65 a month! :eek:

It means we're more careful now and the switch card only comes out for food shopping, and DD's are just bills - no more hanky panky!

$17mma wrote:

Hi EagerLearner

Fab spreadsheet:beer: :j


One question why is it that when i get to 10k on the saving pots the numbers in the total turn to hashes? how can i stop this from happening and how do i add more months to it following December? Wil you make another spreadsheet for the new year?

Hi $17mma - to eliminate the hashes - just widen the column (drag in the top header gray area between columns) :T

I hope to create a new spreadsheet for the new year - yes definately :beer:

Hi Annie - you need to right click on the chart and check 'source data' - make sure the chart is referring to the right cells. Sometimes the chart doesn't update itself with the underlying data and needs refreshing - it's possible that's what happened but I can't tell without seeing the spreadsheet - if you like PM me your e-mail address, I'll respond, then you can e-mail me the sheet to take a look?

Hi Annie - you may also prefer to view the savings 'tower' in normal format, rather than 3D - for this, simply right-click, select 'chart type' and select the top middle option, this will change the chart to a plain tower which may be easier for you to read. See what you think.