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Using Microsoft Excel 2010 To Manage Your Money


Does Anyone Budget Anymore?

by SoftwareGuru


Using Excel 2010 is one of those idealistic article headlines that you read and think I could do that but I'm not really that organised as a person...

Fact is, it doesn't matter how useful a software tool like Microsoft Excel 2010 is if our relationship with money is not a healthy one.

Do we take responsibility for our own financial lives or do we leave envelopes containing statements unopened, waiting for someone else to force us to do something?

If it's a comprehensive money saving guide you're after, I recommend taking a look at the Budget Planner information page over at MoneySavingExpert.com

You can download spreadsheet resources from that page also.

The fact is while it's easy to talk about student budgets, too many students wait until there's a problem before realising they should have done something months ago.

Especially when companies are throwing credit cards at students of all ages.

















Reminders in Outlook

If mangaing your finances with a spreadsheet program like Excel 2010 seems like too much effort, start with smaller steps.

Outlook 2010 doesn't just allow you to manage multiple email and social media accounts from one place.

Microsoft Outlook also provides a calendar which you can use to create reminders and alerts for things.

The problem with throwing a bill aside is it doesn't go away.

Setting reminders via Outlook can help you remember anything from when to recycle your rubbish to getting started on that coursework revision.  

The journey always becomes easier once we take that first step but until we do, it's another idea we believe we'll get round to eventually.

For example, how many of us would agree wholeheartedly with the idea of recycling but have yet to start doing it regularly? I suspect quite a few.

Outlook 2010 makes it a lot easier to organise the things we want to get done so we can free up more time for fun activities.

The Real Obstacle To Success

If you use Office 2010 programs such as Excel and Outlook to manage your finances and schedules, you may be interested in finding out more about the new Windows 7 mobile phone.

This family video on our YouTube profile shows how emails and schedules can be acessed via mobile as well as tracking household finances.

The video does a great job of illustrating how practical these ideas are because not everyone in a household will naturally be an organised type of person.

For mobile users who prefer to have a QWERTY keypad but still long for the elegance of the latest smart phones, the Windows 7 phone might be just what you need.

The continued growth of Twitter and online social media chat makes these type of keypads in mobiles essential for many users.

There's no doubt that our mobile phone is quickly becoming our second computer and for some it is even the device they use the most to surf the web.

From managing fianances to weekly schedule reminders, the software exists to help us achieve more in less time.

The only real obstacle to success we ever truly face is ourselves.


Buy Microsoft Excel 2010 today as part of Office 2010 for only £38.95 - limited time offer.




 






















Using Microsoft Excel 2010 To Manage Your Money