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Using Google Spreadsheets to Help with your Finances.

First off, I love spreadsheets. What a great way to calculate, track, or run what if’s. Spread sheets along with many other things follow the same rule…garbage in = garbage out. I might start a spread sheet for budgeting, but I find I quickly fall behind with updating the spread sheet because maybe it’s stored on a computer I may not be working at when I need to update the data. Then by the time you can actually update the spread sheet you’ve forgotton what you were going to update. So I recently converted some of my spread sheets over to the google online format. The import went very well with no problems. And after only a few minutes of “playing around” I found all the tools I needed to work with the data. So far I love the conveniece it gives me. Whereever I am, I can jump in and update a few fields and be done.

Now obviously google spreadsheets has no where near the features and capabilities of Excel, but it is certainly has enough for what most people use spread sheets to do. The conveinece far out weighs any missing features. I find I can actually keep my data up to date much easier which then equates to “quality in = quality out”. I could also easily share my spreadsheet with someone else if the need arose.

Give the Google spread sheets a try, after all it is free.

visit docs.google.com to sign up and try it out.