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  • tiddles
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    30/25 for the last day of January please, Cathybird

  • maman
    maman Posts: 30,662 Forumite
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    Don't make it hard for yourself @cathybird. I, for one, am quite happy to stick with the linked lists. Who knows mse might think again about the new 'improved' upgrade. 🤞

  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 16,763 Forumite
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    edited 31 January at 4:17PM

    @maman (and @everyone), you're not wrong. I did my best today trying to set up a table that might work (you can import tables from excel/word/google sheets or set one up in MSE and I tried both). It works OK for small tables, but bigger ones are so awkward. There doesn't seem to be any way of making the font size smaller (which you would think would be part of a "rich text" editor) so none of the names fitted across the first column, and it wasn't letting me make the column wider without starting with the column on the extreme right and working in. Then when I copied and pasted it to see how that worked, it lost all that formatting anyway! With the best will in the world I think it's too hard, will stick to link only for now, sorry everyone. There might be another way though, I'll see. It's such a shame because actually the totals/emojis could look quite good as a table if the text editor wasn't so clunky. :/

  • cathybird
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    January AFD totals updated here and annual totals updated here :) :)

  • Vanlady
    Vanlady Posts: 294 Forumite
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    Absolutely agree, don't make it too hard or too time consuming for yourself @cathybird, as im sure im speaking for everyone here that we're all SO grateful that you keep regular updates 🥰.

    I personally wouldn't even know where to start!

    Im enjoying a 🍷or 2 today, so I'm finishing on 28/31 for January please.

    I'll stay on 21 AFD for February as I think 28 for January was just a fluke, and for me, I'm probably better having a target to be accountable to.

  • jivjules1
    jivjules1 Posts: 78 Forumite
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    31/31 for January!
    plan is 28/28 for Feb also!

  • satchmo1
    satchmo1 Posts: 3,592 Forumite
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    31/25 for me today please! First complete month for quite some time. I'll stick with a target of 25 for the next few months please.

    What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?
  • cathybird
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    @maman and @Vanlady thank you, I did try! xxx :)

  • cathybird
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    @RobM99 oh no - sorry to hear you lost your wallet - what a drag :/ Good that Lloyds sorted it out though.

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