Track your finances - by our in-house writer Musicwhiz

[wsreader]

Can consider using open office calc instead of excel. One day your new PC may not come with microsoft office suite and all macros and formulas have to re-program.

[CityFarmer]

It is quite un-conceivable for office work without microsoft office suite nowaday, with the intensive use of excel for department budgeting, project budgeting or anything involve resources

But i agree for personal usage, if we can use "free" app instead of excel, then we will not need to pay.

I had tried open office before, but give up after a while, too much of an effort to re-learn all of my excel's tricks under open office environment

[corydorus]

I ever tried open office in my mini. Frankly it is quite hard for me to re-learn. The day my Notebbok do not have Excel, i rather buy Excel and install it than to re-learn ...

[Jared Seah]

Thank you Cory and CityFarmer

After reading you guys, I feel less shy being a MS office legacy lover. I'm into nostalgia

I am keeping my 2003 MS office student edition CDs in a safe safe place. Even newer versions of Excel I not used to it...

LOL!

[valuestalker]

Try Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/

I have been using it to keep track of my investment (or so i claim) portfolio.

I like the accessibility whereby i can view/edit everywhere just by using browser (the mobile version not to my liking though).
Note: as they say, we are slowly migrating to live ON the cloud.

[snowcap]

Good article, thanks for the sample spreadsheets, will take some time to look through.

[Drizzt]

i agree there are many flaws but LibreOffice and Google Office suite is coming along nicely. Especially google spreadhsheet being ubiquitous.

A good exercise is if you guys try to see if you can tranlate your excel to google spreadsheet.

[piggo]

I'm using dropbox+excel... been working out very well so far =)

[Drizzt]

haha not every place can have dropbox access, or do u access on your android phones/tablets

[greypiggi]

Use microsoft money last time, crashed pc and switch to quicken. Using quicken since 2008. Works great! I spend mostly using credit cards and so track all cc expenses. Cash only withdrawals since too many and small to track. Track all investments too. Works fine and love the reports I get.