You have decided that it might be a good idea to create a personal household budget for yourself. You know you are able to pay all your bills, attend school, and even have money left for fun get a-ways. But you really want to be able to save money to purchase a house after you graduate with your degree. You decide to create a personal budget and decide to use MS Excel 2007 to help you with this. You begin to gather your pay stubs and all the bills you have to pay each month and sit down in front of your computer and open Excel 2007.
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Open Microsoft Excel 2007. You will begin with a new worksheet.
Step 1: Create and format a row to show the months for the year (Jan-Dec).
Step 2: Create and format a row, beneath the month row, to show yearly income for each month (Jan-Dec), and properly label the row and value.
Step 3: Add each expense in a separate row (as identified in step 4) and properly label each row and value.
Step 4: For the expenses and income, create a year's history by month. Use different values for each month. For example, for electric, you would pick a number between $125 and $142 for January, a different number between $125 and $142 for February, and so on. Feel free to make up the amounts you use for each expense.
Step 5: Select an appropriate style for your budget and apply it to your worksheet.