# me, Excel 2000, budgeting and the pseudo organizing of funds

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-excel-2000-budgeting-and-the-pseudo-organizing-of-funds/210942 "2003-11-02T03:51:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![vivian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@vivian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivian)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-excel-2000-budgeting-and-the-pseudo-organizing-of-funds/210942/1 "2003-11-02T03:51:35Z")

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ok, so i’ve decided to start “budgeting”. i also wanted to use the word pseudo cuz it makes me sound all learn-ed and stuff, but anyhoo…  
can anyone recommend a FREE excel spreadsheet for personal finances? or even anything free relating to organizing my finances and making me feel like i’m doing something?

thank you

😃

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**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-excel-2000-budgeting-and-the-pseudo-organizing-of-funds/210942/2 "2003-11-02T11:55:53Z")

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Do you use a recent version of Windows? My computer came with Microsoft Money on it which is probably a bit better suited for budgeting and money matters than Excel simply because of its narrower focus.

CJ

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**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-excel-2000-budgeting-and-the-pseudo-organizing-of-funds/210942/3 "2003-11-02T15:20:45Z")

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Yep, Money or Quicken are much better than just plain Excel.

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**Author:** ![vivian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@vivian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivian)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-excel-2000-budgeting-and-the-pseudo-organizing-of-funds/210942/4 "2003-11-03T02:02:36Z")

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nope. i’m using windows 2000

i went to microsoft to look for some templates. i found a perfect one, but it was for excel 2003.

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i’m guessing there are no free versions of these programs…