Topic: Source of worksheets

[Paul Reiss]

Do you know a source(preferably share- or free-ware) of pre-written work sheets for various uses, such as calculating gas mileage, utilities cost, lawn or car care scheduling, etc.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Try Microsoft's own template listing.  They have a number of spreadsheets designed to keep track of things.

Here is a link that may get you there:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT011356681033.aspx

A search for the specific spreadsheet may turn up several possiblities; or you could learn to do your own.

Dewey

[BillB]

Is everything like this these days?

No. If you read Dewey's message, he says

or you could learn to do your own.

My experience is that canned templates are mostly a red herring. I look at their offerings and try to meld it to do what I want it to. By the time I finish, I have a document that does almost, but not quite, what I want and I've spent as long as if I'd created it from scratch.

What you get from the template is an idea of how someone else might do it. Unfortunately Microsoft's are either so complex or have been compiled so you can't decompose them to learn. You'll do better searching the public forums for open code.

[BillB]

I am starting to post some basic spreadsheets at my blog (currently http://numbersforeveryone.blogspot.com/). I'm using Google Docs to display the spreadsheets, but sometimes you can't export them directly into a working spreadsheet. I do include the formulas in plain text so you can build your own. Just be sure you start out in the same cells so references will be correct.

There's already an MPG record keeper. Utility tracking is coming as soon as Warren teaches me how to get my charts right.