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Congratulations! You have created a really nice looking budget so far. Here’s a copy of the file in case you want to start from here:

Family Budget 2.xlsx (zipped)

Now that we have a framework for the budget, let’s starting entering some data and filling it out. Start at the top and fill out the sections as illustrated below:

Want to skip this data entry? Family Budget 3.xlsx (zipped)

Don’t add the income line items up, just leave Income Total empty for now. Later, we will create a formula to add those cells up. It’s time to move on to the next section:

And the next section…

Good job so far! Now, let’s move to enter some more expenses:

And finally, the rest of the expenses (we spend way too much money!):

We’re finished entering data, so let’s format the numbers. Click on cell B3 and hold the left mouse button down, now drag down to cell B58:

Click on the  in the Number section of the Home ribbon. This will format the entire column in dollars:

We have rounded all of our dollar figures, so we want to eliminate the .00 from each of the cells. Click on the  icon in the Number section of the Home ribbon twice. Now, your formatting should look like this:

Congratulations! You have entered your data and formatted it into dollars. In the next section, we will continue formatting this document.