Hi Chris,

This probably won't be much help, but I did the same
thing. Quicken and Money have too many bells and whistles
for my taste. In XL, I used drop downs for just about
everything. You pretty much know all your regular and
routine expenditures and transactions. You simply put
those items in the drop downs. My version is 99% point and
click. This keeps everything nice and simple - no monster
formulas and no miles of code.

As far as AutoComplete goes, it's not faulty, that's just
how it works - not very well!

Just some thoughts

Biff

-----Original Message-----
I am attempting to build a spreadsheet to track my
personal finances (have
MS Money, don't like). When I am entering a description
of a bill, I would
like other cells to automatically populate. For
instance, if the
description of the bill is Atco Electric, then I would
like one cell beside
it to automatically indicate house, and the one beside
that to indicate
utility. The first time I input this description, I
don't expect the
spreadsheet to know the descriptions of the bills, but I
would like to build
it so that if you tell it what the bill was in January,
it remembers the
category to place it in when you input it in February.
Has anyone attempted
something like this? Any examples on the web?

I have thought of ways I can do this with the match/index
comands, however,
they are not as user friendly/powerful as I would like.

One drawback is Excel's faulty autocomplete. If it
worked reliably, it
would make it much easier to input the same description
month after month
(because I need an exact match for the match/index
functions to work), and
have it spelled the same way every month. Is there
anyway to repair the
autocomplete command or has someone figured out how to do
it through VBA?

Thank you,
Chris




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