SPREADSHEETS

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Let's talk about them in here.

I LOVE Spreadsheets.  

If I ever saved over mine or deleted it on accident, I would be so lost.  So very lost.

What is your favorite thing about your spreadsheet?

BluepointToasted

Nerds

[Deleted User]

I balance my checkbook every couple of months and I cannot tell you how maddening it is when I'm ONE penny off.  I will sit there and scour my spreadsheet and compare it to my checking account to figure it out.  

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Mine isn't really all that special.  It's set up just as a checkbook register is set up.  I just have a million tabs for ALL of the things.

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And I don't really budget out my money to specific things.  I just know that after I pay my bills and put money in savings/IRAs, I have $X and that is what I can spend for those 2 weeks.

[Deleted User]

Mine is set to Arial 10pt.

It's also password protected.

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I also LOVE savings accounts.

I don't have a ton of money in them, but I have a bunch of online savings accounts and it's like my personal envelope system.  

I'm completely nuts.

acesup

I use them for work but never even thought to bring them into my personal life. OMG. I feel like I've just been awakened.

ETA: shit I'm on a Mac. Can you do spreadsheets on a Mac?
<---- computer illiterate

SCSmith2011

I LOVE spreadsheets. I used to have amazing budget spreadsheets and debt paydown spreadsheets but I lost them when I changed computers a few years ago. Now I'm old school on a yellow legal pad. I would give anything to have my spreadsheets back though.

acesup

CrazyCornball said:

piglet6609 said:

I use them for work but never even thought to bring them into my personal life. OMG. I feel like I've just been awakened.

ETA: shit I'm on a Mac. Can you do spreadsheets on a Mac?
<---- computer illiterate

Yes, you can. I'm pretty sure you even have Excel on a Mac. 

Thanks! I'm going to try to figure this out later lol

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SCSmith2011 said:

I LOVE spreadsheets. I used to have amazing budget spreadsheets and debt paydown spreadsheets but I lost them when I changed computers a few years ago. Now I'm old school on a yellow legal pad. I would give anything to have my spreadsheets back though.

If that happened to me, I would lose it.  Like seriously lose it.

I don't know if I could start over.  It would be really hard.

SCSmith2011

@Dragonblood13 that's why I haven't started over. I had to work though all the stages of grief after I lost everything. Then I just grabbed a notepad so I'd have something to keep track of finances. Someday I'll have an amazing spreadsheet again. SOMEDAY!!!!! ::shakes fist::

sister13

I love spreadsheets too! I have 10 of them open right now! 

For work, I could not live without pivot tables.  

For home, I love doing my debt paydowns and mortgage payoff and 401k calculations.

I think my 401k formula calculations are my favorite, where I can edit different rates of return and update my salary/contribution each year (optimistic) and then play with how much annual income we could live on after retirement and how long we would live to still keep some balance.  

[Deleted User]

I sit and mull over my spreadsheets for hours a day.  

I'm all "work, what's work??  Spreadsheet time!"

NeneCakies

=if(vlookup('[Spreadsheets]OP'!A1,Parenting,1,FALSE)="@Dragonblood13","lovetit","lovetit")

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@nenecakies

Is that a curse or a hex?  I'm nervous.

OMG!  I'm so slow!  

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Spreadsheet humor fail.

But holy hell I lovetit you as well.

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NeneCakies

DragonBlood13 said:

@nenecakies

Is that a curse or a hex?  I'm nervous.

OMG!  I'm so slow!  

It's all good @DragonBlood13‌!

I nerd out for formulas, obvs. And pivot tables. My life's blood right there.

NeneCakies

HilarityEnsued said:

Lol at @NeneCakies‌ formula nerd humor

=if(lovetit="",FALSE,TRUE)

Love tit the shit @HilarityEnsued‌

sleepy33

I introduced my boss to the concept of 'format as table', and you would have thought I just hacked the DOD mainframe. I love old people.

sister13

I love that no matter how much you know about Excel - you almost always pick up a new tip or shortcut from someone else when you see them use it! 

sleepy33

piffley said:

I stopped using spreadsheets for our expenses after I discovered Mint. I do however have spreadsheets for our TV channels (we don't pay for cable but still get cable with scrambled channels), the TV shows I watch with separate tabs for Summer and Fall. I also have a spreadsheet for addresses ad another one for all pur cloth diapers

What is this sorcery?!?

renbee

You guys are giving me a spreadsheet boner.