how do i post and categorize expense and income?

[TammyC]

I am trying to locate somewhere on our office pro 2003 an area where i can
post income and expenses for personal household use that will automatically
place expenses in a certain category, such as food, electric, water, etc.
(such as with Quicken Books)

where do i find this, or can i download something from the web site?

 

[John Vinson]

I am trying to locate somewhere on our office pro 2003 an area where i can
post income and expenses for personal household use that will automatically
place expenses in a certain category, such as food, electric, water, etc.
(such as with Quicken Books)

where do i find this, or can i download something from the web site?

That would not be native capability within Office. The Office programs
(Word, Excel, Access, etc.) let you do general tasks - creating
documents, spreadsheets, databases respectively. They aren't "end use"
applications such as you describe.

You may want to actually USE Quicken or Microsoft Money for this
purpose: the programs are designed to manage this kind of information,
and have many person-years of development effort invested in doing so.

You could create a database in Access to do all this, but it would be
a large amount of work to get something that probably would not be as
flexible or easy to use as Money would be, right out of the box.

John W. Vinson[MVP]