Tracking your bills in one basic location such as a spreadsheet allows you to create a budget method that is organized and provides quick information when you need it. Using a spreadsheet, whether on ...

Before bookkeeping software, accountants used handwritten spreadsheets to track business expenses. Now you can use programs, such as Excel to design expense spreadsheets and do the math for you, but ...

It’s January and you’ve gone and done it: You’ve resolved to keep better track of your personal finances. But deep down, you’re not sure where to start. Sure, you can buy accounting software, sign up ...

Whenever you create a Microsoft Excel workbook, you should always take the necessary steps to make it accessible to everyone, especially if you plan to share your work with others. In this guide, I'll ...

I have a new item for your to-do list: Make a better to-do list. As I’ve written before, I’m a huge proponent of tracking all the little details of your life with spreadsheets. I would never dream of ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...

The ability to create labels in Microsoft Word from an Excel list is easier than you might think. Still, it will take some effort on your part and the steps involved are as follows: To begin, we must ...

If you resolved on Jan. 1 to keep better track of your personal finances, are you sure where to start? Sure, you can buy accounting software, sign up for a service or poke around your bank’s online ...