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Now I'm thinking I should read up on how to create equations in Excel - I've managed to hardly ever need them to use so far, except for a few times when someone else had already set up the spreadsheet - and move the financial info I'm looking up and calculating onto an Excel sheet. It would make the calculations easier and more accurate if they were automatic.
I already keep track of all the money I spend; I could start putting entries into a spreadsheet instead of only in my paper notebook. Then I could do neat things like categorizing each entry, and getting an automatic tally of how much I've spent on each category during the year. Oooh. Sweet. How have I managed to get by without doing that for so long?
Or maybe I'll use an open-source spreadsheet program instead of Excel. That's one of the reasons I've never much gotten into using Excel - because it's proprietary and expensive. I happen to have it on my current computer, but there may come a time when I no longer do. My text editor of choice has been Notepad for the same reason. At work I occasionally use UltraEdit because of its column-editing mode and macro functionality. But UltraEdit isn't free - I had to originally request a work order from my supervisor to get a license to download and use it. That was several years ago. Just yesterday I finally looked up the features of free text-editors, and decided to install Notepad++ on my laptop. I might try out CrimsonEditor too since Notepad++'s column-editing mode is non-intuitive for me, unlike what I got used to in UltraEdit.
I already keep track of all the money I spend; I could start putting entries into a spreadsheet instead of only in my paper notebook. Then I could do neat things like categorizing each entry, and getting an automatic tally of how much I've spent on each category during the year. Oooh. Sweet. How have I managed to get by without doing that for so long?
Or maybe I'll use an open-source spreadsheet program instead of Excel. That's one of the reasons I've never much gotten into using Excel - because it's proprietary and expensive. I happen to have it on my current computer, but there may come a time when I no longer do. My text editor of choice has been Notepad for the same reason. At work I occasionally use UltraEdit because of its column-editing mode and macro functionality. But UltraEdit isn't free - I had to originally request a work order from my supervisor to get a license to download and use it. That was several years ago. Just yesterday I finally looked up the features of free text-editors, and decided to install Notepad++ on my laptop. I might try out CrimsonEditor too since Notepad++'s column-editing mode is non-intuitive for me, unlike what I got used to in UltraEdit.
