Personal Budget Spreadsheets for Microsoft Excel

Download Free Household Budget Templates, Worksheets, Forms Online

May 19, 2009

Where to get Microsoft Excel personal budget spreadsheets. Download free household budgeting templates; use pre-populated budget forms to track household expenses.

This article profiles an excellent source of free personal budget spreadsheets for Microsoft Excel- the Microsoft Office website.

Download these free worksheets in order to start tracking household expenses or create one from scratch using the two resources listed at the bottom of this article. Monthly budgeting is simplified with pre-populated budget forms.

Where to Get Personal Budget Spreadsheets to Track Household Expenses in Microsoft Excel

The Microsoft Office website offers a nice selection of ready-made budget spreadsheets that anyone can download for free. All that is needed to open each file is the appropriate version of Excel. In the “budgets” category for the Microsoft Excel program, there are over seventy different budget templates. Some are for weddings and household projects, but the majority are for family finances, or personal budget purposes. The templates can be sorted by rating, how many times they have been downloaded, date posted, or file name. The file name sort function is not that useful, but rating and download information can help users figure out which templates are most popular (and likely useful); date posted information could be useful for someone looking to budget a specific year or month.

How to Download Free Household Budget Templates, Forms for Microsoft Excel

Here are the budget worksheets currently available on the Microsoft Office website. Under each spreadsheet name will be the required version of Microsoft Excel (for example, “Excel 97 or later” or “Excel 2007”). The most popular template is a personal budget spreadsheet that can be used with Microsoft Excel 97 or later. To download a free household budget template, click on its thumbnail or spreadsheet name, then hit “download” on the next page.

Popular Microsoft Personal Budgeting Spreadsheets for Household Finances

Below are the file names of the eight most popular monthly personal and/or household budget spreadsheet templates for Excel available on the Microsoft Office website. The first three can be used with Excel 97 and the fourth one can be used with Excel 2000; the last four can be opened with Excel 2007.

To access these worksheets, go to the "budget worksheets" link above. The default sort option is by rating; to sort by number of downloads (most popular to least popular), click on the word "downloads" on the "Sort By" line.

Personal Finance Tip- Use Excel Household Budget Templates to Simplify Monthly Budgeting

A household budgeting process needn’t be difficult or require expensive personal finance computer software. Perfectly good templates can be created and maintained in Microsoft Excel. The resources above provide free, ready-made worksheets. Anyone who wishes to begin from scratch can find suggested expense categories for a customized personal budgeting spreadsheet in the following article:

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