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