Money Saving Spreadsheet to use in addition to Martin's

EagerLearner

No prob :beer: - hope it's all working as you'd like it now - just update me when you can on whether it has been useful or not and in what way you have used it - one guy used it as a 'debt' pot rather than a savings pot for example... :j

Annie_Fanny

It is totally useful! I will use it primarily to track savings when I get a full-time job. I need to put money aside each month for things like my annual triathlon membership, long-term savings, and oh yes I would love a car!

EagerLearner

MSE have now allowed me to include this spreadsheet link in my signature as over 1,150 downloads have taken place!

You can also use the spreadsheet savings tab as a 'debt pot' rather than a 'savings pot' - and see the 'tower' going down every month :T :T :T

crystal_clear

Hi EagerLearner

The bump post just meant someone came in to add a post saying Bump in order to put your thread back to the top of the main Debt free wanabees board so it didn't get lost down the page as there are so many threads started each hour let alone per day its easy to get lost in amongst them all.

I also downloaded your spreadsheet and think its great not that i have done anything with it yet, but will be soon

Regards
Crystal

Former_MSE_Andrea

Great stuff EagerLearner! It would be great if you could pop the link to the Budget Planner in your top post and sig as well

PS, and a link to MoneySavingExpert.com on the download page would be quite cool too

EagerLearner

MSE_Andrea wrote:

Great stuff EagerLearner! It would be great if you could pop the link to the Budget Planner in your top post and sig as well

PS, and a link to MoneySavingExpert.com on the download page would be quite cool too

Thanks Andrea - will add a link to MSE on the download page asap. However, re my top post and sig - they already have links to the budget planner... don't understand

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi eagerlearner.. i seem to be having a problem with opening the file on my computer....i am not a computer whizz kid .. so it is prob..something really simple.... here goes i will try and explain whats happening..

the file is in my documents... but when i try and open it i get a message saying ..acrobat reader...... error opening this document file does not begin with % pdf ....what does that mean ? do i need to down load excel or something...? sorry for being a pain... but i would really love to get my hands on this spreadsheet... as there is so many good reports....

hope you can help......thanks....and sorry as i said earlier i am not a computer whizz kid....:rolleyes:

Dr.Lou

Thank you EagerLearner for this Spreadsheet, it's great! Downloaded it when you first put it on MSE and have been filling in the columns for spending and bills etc. In my case it's amazing how much money goes on little things that I normally wouldn't notice (and I'm not as good as I thought). Will have to pull my socks up for the rest of the month! Thanks!

Rex_Mundi

Can I ask a favour from MSE members?

I've copied the instructions set out by EagerLearner in the first post, and added a couple of links/words. Could you check out this instruction page for me before I link to it from the download page? Could you check out the wording, and whether the links work OK. Cheers

Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Instructions page

EagerLearner

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

hi eagerlearner.. i seem to be having a problem with opening the file on my computer....i am not a computer whizz kid .. so it is prob..something really simple.... here goes i will try and explain whats happening..

the file is in my documents... but when i try and open it i get a message saying ..acrobat reader...... error opening this document file does not begin with % pdf ....what does that mean ? do i need to down load excel or something...? sorry for being a pain... but i would really love to get my hands on this spreadsheet... as there is so many good reports....

hope you can help......thanks....and sorry as i said earlier i am not a computer whizz kid....:rolleyes:

Hi CoolTriker - seems to me you don't have Microsoft Excel on your pc?

If you definately have Excel on your pc - the file should be opened in Excel automatically when you double-click it. You may also want to open Excel, then find the file, then open it.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is for 'pdf' (portable document files), not 'xls' files, which are in Excel.

Hope this helps and let me know how you get on!