Budget Planner Spreadsheet Help Thread

robertcjames

hi how do i download the buget planner to open office instead of excel ?

timmy_toad

Right Click and OPEN WITH ........

is worth a try buddy !

tim

Mcbridev

Hi can anyone help?

I am trying to do a budget plan online but everytime I input an amount it comes up with an error message? What way should I be inputting, so far I have tried:

0,000.00
0000.00
0,000
0000

Thanks in advance

Tixy

Mcbridev wrote: »

Hi can anyone help?

I am trying to do a budget plan online but everytime I input an amount it comes up with an error message? What way should I be inputting, so far I have tried:

0,000.00
0000.00
0,000
0000

Thanks in advance

Is it every box that is giving you an error message? or just certain ones?

When I try it allows either just putting in pounds and omitting pence - in which case it assume .00 pence. Or entering pounds.pence. And it works whether or not I use a comma after the thousand.

So 6000 works, as does 6,000
and 1152.45 works as does 1,152.45.
And 149.60 works as does 149.6.

walkerrs

Hi, I've tried several times but I'm not getting the budget planner to work on my Macbook laptop. Has anyone else encountered this? Or is it just me not doing something very obvious

skunkyx

I was just looking for some advice - I'm a student and I'd love to do this, but I'm not 100% sure where I would put my overdraft as part of my money (it doesn't really matter now as I've practically maxed it out but for future reference...)

Also I'm a bit unsure what is meant by 'Income from savings and investments'. Is that just interest on bank accounts and such?

oldman32

skunkyx wrote: »

I was just looking for some advice - I'm a student and I'd love to do this, but I'm not 100% sure where I would put my overdraft as part of my money (it doesn't really matter now as I've practically maxed it out but for future reference...)

Also I'm a bit unsure what is meant by 'Income from savings and investments'. Is that just interest on bank accounts and such?

The MSE Excel budget planner although probably helpful to many, is a passive tool ie you just enter data & get one result out which you could just do on a plain spreadsheet.

There are others out there which you may find more useful.- if you google company called Vertex42 they do many Free budget templates including one for students that you can download for free.

Hope helpful

ShortieT

Whilst googling for ideas for improvements to my own budget spreadsheet i came across one that looks suspiciously similar to the MSE one.

I can't post the link but if you want to see it go to Dunfermline Building Society's website, navigate to the Help Centre and then go to Bob's Budget Planner

Very interesting!

Shortie

oldman32

ShortieT wrote: »

Whilst googling for ideas for improvements to my own budget spreadsheet i came across one that looks suspiciously similar to the MSE one.

I can't post the link but if you want to see it go to Dunfermline Building Society's website, navigate to the Help Centre and then go to Bob's Budget Planner

Very interesting!

Shortie

Agree that appears to be a blatant rip-off but guess imitation is the best form of flattery

The budget planner in my view, is very outdated & there are much better (free) tools out there for those that still want to use a spreadsheet.

Rosylee

I have just read Martin's piggy bank technique. Sorry if I am asking something that has been asked before. However, is Martin referring to opening a number of current accounts? Do most banks not require a certain amount to be deposited each month into these accounts, even if you were able to open them? And does it mean that you now have to change your payment details with all the various companies to these new accounts? I am not clear on exactly what one is meant to do in regard to opening bank accounts. Or is it just a number of savings accounts? I would be grateful for any clarification