Excel MoneySavingExpert Budget Spreadsheet

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Technical Queries Discussions: This is the place for any comments or queries regarding the technical and/or functional facets of MSE's Excel Budget Spreadsheet. !Any bugs or errors, please write them down here.

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Martin's Article: Before you download the Spreadsheet, make sure you read Martin's article:
Budget the MoneySavingExpert way

To get the spreadsheet, click here.

Special thanks to MSE regular Tony H for putting the Spreadsheet together! ! !

Webby

Addition from Martin

Tony has done an amazing volunteer job doing this. !And i know he is reading this and will be here to help if you can't use the spreadsheet. !
martin

Best answers:

• For us poor peasants who prefer not to pay the extortionate prices that Microsoft charge for MS Office and MS Excell can this spreadsheet be used in any other software package?
• webbie would you ever make it so it was an online calculator incorporate into a webpage
• Excel will not allow me to run any of the macros in the sheet despite changing my security settings to "Low" - any ideas?
  TIA
• Which version of Excel are you using? Do you receive the "Macro Warning Dialog" box on opening the spreadsheet?
  The security level does not need to be reduced below medium, have you changed this back from the low setting?
• I have a mac pc and it has downloaded butit comes up with
  THE TRANSLATOR COULD NOT READ THIS FILE
  what does this mean
• Hi
  You can download a free excel viewer for peeps that do not have the full verison of excel.
  You can get it at
  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
• Thanks a lot Wagon - that did the job for me
• I have downloaded but can't use the spreadsheet the message I kept getting is
  "macros are disabled because security level is high and macros have not been digitally signed or verified as safe"
  What if anything can i do?
  Thanks
• When I try to open up the SS, it automaticaly opent MS Powerpoint??
• Hi
  How do I open this file using microsoft works spreadsheet. I tried to unzip but cannot as the error message says the file is password protected.
  I downloaded the viewer as advised but can only look at the file not access it.......as you can tell not very computer literate !
  Thanks
• I have Windows XP Home Edition and this has the 'Works' spreadsheet. Can anyone help out as to whether I can get access to the MSE Spreadsheet?
  I actually do have my own budget spreadsheet in Works, but I'm a novice and it's not very sophisticated, and I would love to upgrade to this Excel one.
  I visited the site that someone suggested, but this seemed to inidicate that the Excel software would only let you 'view' existing spreadsheets and not necessarily work on them. Or did I get that completely wrong?
• The spreadsheets make use of the "Macro" feature of MS Excel for navigational purposes, similar to a website where you are able to move from page to page by clicking on links/buttons.
  IF the viewer DOESNT support this then in my opinion would not be suitable for this spreadsheet. Wagon & Quackers do say it works, so I guess you could try. It does say that it's not recommended for use on computers with Excel installed.
  [hr]It seems as if the two most popular alternatives so far are "Webpage" and or MS Works. If Martin is happy I will certainly look into creating a web based solution. Some people disable "Java" from the browsers, so this again could cause some problems with compatability.
• I would love a web page solution Tony!
• I will look into that for you Martin, it will require time though purely due to the amount of coding involved. I will speak with Webby about the constraints involved to insure it fit's nicely into the site. ;D