Editing the MSE Budget Planner

lizziemel

Firstly could I apologise if this is covered somewhere. I have searched the site and forum and now found the information.
I would like to edit the MSE Budget planner which I have downloaded and filled in.  I would like to keep all my spending in the relevant sections but in order to do this, there are usually too many pre-filled "category/description" sections which it would be good for me to alter, and then not enough "edit your own" ones.  I tried making a copy but don't know how to change any permissions to alter the "base" spreadsheet. I'm using Libre Office.  Please ask me to qualify anything further as I may not have made myself clear here.  thanks.

twhatmough

I've tried using the budget planner, and want to edit it to suit my needs, but it appears to be password protected. Is this right? In which case, what is the password!

Neil_Jones

You can always make your own spreadsheet, if the MSE default options aren't what you need.

At the end of the day it just adds a bunch of numbers up after all.

anniecave

The point of the MSE budget is to do a detailed look at everything, then it uses formulas and summaries to give you an overall picture. So I would use this as a one off if you haven't already done something similar to compare everything, putting things into the best categories you can.  The overall idea is to give you ideas for how to maximise your income and minimise your expenditure, but only as much as you want to do each.  

Then ongoing you would use a different spreadsheet, as the above posters suggest, and make up your own categories to analyse as you want.  It's then personal to how you want.