I've learned in 11 minutes more about how to organize a spreadsheet than in endless tutorials. Thanks for sharing this.

Gary, you’re the Bob Ross for Mac fans. I bet a bunch of us just play your videos in a loop in the background.

@JimzAuto

7 ай бұрын

MacMost should have an OnlyFans :)

perfect! This video had all the information I needed and I learned so fast.

OH MY GAWD, you just blew my mind- I've been tracking my expenses with pen and paper for the last year bc I didn't know squat about spreadsheets (and was intimidated). I'm now actually excited to make my own thanks to this video. Thank you so much!!

Perfect timing to start my expenses spreadsheet for next year, thanks!!

You have a real gift as a teacher Gary! Thanks for all your shared knowledge! All the best!

Thanks very clear and helpful.

Gary, thank you for your informative content. Please create a video explaining how to troubleshoot the "category" column when it only gives you an option to pick from a pre-selected list instead of typing out the customised category list.

@macmost

Ай бұрын

Not sure what you mean. You can type whatever you want in the category column. There is autofill, but you don't need to use it.

Gary, you’ve given me the confidence to build my own expense spreadsheet. I’ve been looking for one already formatted but they never seem to fit my needs. I can’t thank you enough for your video content and the way you present the information is amazing.

Just what I've been waiting for. Thank you so much Gary. Great video as always.

I hope you stay motivated for a long time. Thank you for your support, you are really a good guy

You got a talent to shine a light on things that I almost forgot because they are so basic. Now I want to play with pivots again. Thanks

Excellent tutorial. Very useful approach to keeping track of this data. Many thanks!

Great no-frills demo, I can now get an easy update on my personal spending going forward.

Once again, you find a way to explain things simply, encouraging us to try them. Well done!

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! I always learn something new! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

This is wonderful! I have been tracking my expenses for years now, but you just simplified my whole program. Thank you 🙏

Thanks for this. Pivot tables finally starting to make some sense.

Thank you Gary! I just love your videos. You've answered so many questions. You are the Best!

Very useful, as always. I made my spreadsheets years ago before Apple offered pivot tables. What a bunch of work that was.

Thanks Gary! For another very helpful video. Numbers is becoming my favorite App!

Thank you for helping people out. Thank you for helping me out with this wonderful tutorial on tracking expenses. Thank you for investing in your time to add value to our lives. You're a genius and a caring person. Blessings to you.

This is so useful. Thank you!

Thank you for this tutorial, I was so confused , but you made it so simple. Your tutorials are the best and simple.

Perfect Video straight to the point and very helpful!

I’ve been tracking expenses since 2005 with a separate page for each year. It was good enough for me, however this tip will revolutionize my efforts going forward. Thanks.

Excellent. I have been using this for last 4 years. Off course was not using Pivot table facility. Nw I will. Thanks Gary.

Gary - great video! Much appreciated. I stopped using Quicken when me and my wife switched to Apple Cards cause we could not automatically import the transactions. I have have already using some basic spreadsheets to just calculate the household expenses, but this just gave me some additional ideas on how to do track all expenses! Great work!

Awesome. I’m going to try this out. Thank you Gary!

Oh my goodness, this is exactly what I needed to make my inventory list with the costs of items. Thank you so much!

Just what I was looking for. Brilliant!

Best tutorial on pivot tables so far!

Very useful, Gary. I've done this for several years in Excel. What you've shown looks much simpler than what I created (I have dropdown menus for the Categories). I will be trying out what you've so well explained to get a record of expenses with less effort than I've had to put in over the years. Thank you and best wishes for the Season and the coming New Year. As usual, you've knocked this one out of the park!! Thank you.

Very useful material. Thank you!

This is very helpful and timely as we begin 2024. Thank you!

Spectacular, as always! I did my tax records for 2023 in 3 hours, granted that I had to look for the data in a very defective table that I have used for a year! Thank you very much!

This is excellent. Thank you very much. I have been looking to really keep track of my expenses now that I am retired. I will be using this .... will have to study how to do it. I appreciate YOU !!!

Thanks very much, Gary, for this most informative video! This definitely beats the App for expenses I have been using.

Super informative and easy to follow. Thanks for the help!

Thanks, Gary! Very useful, to say the least.

Thank you SO much! This was super easy to follow! I am so proud of myself!

Exactly what I was trying to do today and wish I would have came across this video first!! Thanks for uploading this!!

I never knew what pivot tables were - spent ages trying to sort formulas. Thanks!!

It can be perfectly mixed with the Business Expenses video. That video made me rebuild my entire budget spreadsheet.👌💪

Hi Gary, I’ve been doing that for some of the past years. I go all the way down on my expenses for a year and I keep sheets for different categories such as expenses, money that I make, bank payments on credit cards, gasoline on my two cars and figure out what I do with my money. This is a way to handle your earnings as a business man, especifica you’re retired. Thanks for sharing our expertise, pretty useful

Excellent! Thank you!

Love it, really you are the master. Thanks and keep it up!

Thanks for making this video. This Video help me to make my monthly expenses spreadsheet.

Great overview again Gary…just enough for the simple stuff I need…cheers

Very useful video. Thank you.

I never understood pivot tables until this video. THANKS!

Excellent ! Thank you very much !!!

Another tutorial that will save me a lot of time.

Ignore my question. You just answered the question in the video. Thanks for the great session

Thank so much, very useful 👍

Very useful, thank you!

This WAS helpful, thank you soooo much!

God bless you man… thanks so much

Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video

Thank you! This is very helpful.

GREAT AS ALWAYS

Very helpful video and you can apply this same in other spreadsheet apps like Excel or Google Sheets too if you have a Windows PC and want to access there

Super helpful, thank you.

yes, it was amazing, thanks

thanks for sharing I admire your passion

This is a great video, just what i need

Thank you!!!

A vey good guide, it is very helpful for me, thank you :)

So helpful!!!!!!! Thanks

Gary you are the real MVP!

Thank you ❤

This was a great video!

Gary, once again you’ve proven that you are THE Apple maven. Terrific tutorial. 😊

Big thumbs up, new subscriber from Algeria!

Very very nice and thank you. I could have been using this for years with my expenses of making videos.

Fantastic!!!

Very useful

Very cool! Very useful :)

I needed this! Thank you! I’ve been using Apple notes lol

@rsdriskell

7 ай бұрын

Me too...definitely changing over to Numbers...

Okay full disclosure. I need to file three years of taxes🤦🏼‍♀️ I procrastinated due to a family health crisis and I have a quality but small breeding/ show kennel with beautiful German Shepherds. Two litters, imports, registration, vet FOOD…all the stuff. I have the receipts and I HATE Excel. The main source of my trepidation! As a Mac user and web designer for 25 years, how did I not know about this! I’ve watched this video and another one about pivot tables. Tomorrow morning let the fun begin! My accountant will be so proud😬 It may take two weeks but now I am actually excited to use this cool app. Thank You is an understatement! ❤️

@AlijahSimon

4 күн бұрын

For anyone reading this, adopt, don't buy!

nice, I will try setting the up it would be less work than what I am doing now. Thank you

Hi Gary you the best

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Thank you very much. I'd done mine after seen your video. Could make a video teaching how to make a Cash Flow now ?

@macmost

5 ай бұрын

Not sure what you mean by a "cash flow." But think about how you would do it on paper and then built a spreadsheet to do exactly the same thing, for starters.

Thanks Gary, very helpful. Can you add income into the chart to allow you to keep an accurate log of what’s coming in and going out?

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

It adds a dimension of complexity, but of course many people keep such detailed records in a spreadsheet. Just figure out what you want to track and design it.

Oh yeah I did something similar but I used functions instead of a pivot table. Totally forgot pivot tables existed 🤣🤣

Thanks. That is great and easy to follow!. I would assume from the pivot tables it would be easy to create graphs for better visualization?

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

Yes. Try it.

Thank you Gary. These short videos are a great way to help us to develop our knowledge. Is there a way to clear cell history description. I mean when you start to type in a cell and it shows all previous entries in that column. These previous entries can get out of hand. Thank you.

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

You can turn it off, but it certainly comes in handy in the Category column where you should have a small number of possibilities.

@raycollington4310

7 ай бұрын

@@macmost Thanks Gary, I was thinking when you typed a lot of entries into a column cell, they are all stored and I wondered if there was a way to clean this cache stuff out. I only recently found the channel. It's great and you are very professional, thank you from UK.

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

@@raycollington4310 There's no cache. It just looks at the other entries in the column.

@raycollington4310

7 ай бұрын

@@macmost Thank you, now I feel a bit stupid. Merry Christmas to you and many thanks for your help.

I would like to be able to make this and combining it with shortcuts

Very Good work My name Satveer Singh from India

Excellent!! Do you have a tutorial on a customer database?

@macmost

6 ай бұрын

No. How that would work really depends on your specific needs.

This is very helpful. Thank you. Is there a way to add a feature for zero-based budgeting? Ex. every dollar has to be assigned to a category

@macmost

2 ай бұрын

Not sure of the details of that, but I'm sure you can work it out once you learn basic Numbers skills.

Love this! Would it be possible to have sub categories (e.g. Food/Groceries and Food/Dining Out) and have the main category (Food) and / or sub category data (Groceries, Dining Out) show in the pivot table?

@Liam_Maddog

7 ай бұрын

Don’t make it too complicated. Create another category called Entertainment.

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

Yes, keep it simple or your summary pivot table will become useless. On the other hand, you can always add another column. So the Category column could be "Entertainment" and the Subcategory column can be "Movies" or "Concert" etc. Then don't use the subcategory column in the pivot table at all.

@Bernygravy

7 ай бұрын

@@macmost Great idea, and elegantly simple! Thanks!

Very interesting information that I did not know how to do. Can you use pivot tables with the MAC template "personal budget" or will it crash the pre-formated template?

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

Probably. Why not create a sample document and see what you can do. Playing around with sample documents is a great way to learn Numbers.

Very cool material, can you make something similar for the stock exchange?

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

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Love the video - would it be possible to incorporate this spreadsheet with the shortcuts automation’When I Tap any of 3 Wallet passes or payment card? If so can you show ?

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

Not sure what you are asking. But I don't think so.

More on this, please, I have a bar graph that shows my net worth overtime as well as my debt overtime. Currently I have manually delete the oldest year and then add the newest year whenever I need to. I would like to learn how to create a revolving bar chart if that’s possible, where I don’t have to delete delete the old data, and I can then use a scrollbar to scroll to the oldest part of the chart or the newest part.

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

That could be more trouble than it is worth. If it takes a minute to alter the chart per year, then putting hours of work into it to make it "automatic" may not pay off.

Thanks for the video. Now I have an understanding of what pivotables do. Question: with the categories column, in order for it to work to group expenses in that second sheet, you need to ensure that you spell the names correctly, right? I ask as you seem to enter each entry manually. I was wondering if you could make a dropdown list or something and if so, how can that be done? Thanks.

@macmost

7 ай бұрын

Yes. Just use the autofill function that is already there. So once you have something like "Travel" in the column, it tries to autofill "Travel" when you start typing it. Makes it easy.

Hi Gary. I want to say thanks for your video on Numbers. I have just set up as a self employed delivery person for Just Eats and a few other ventures and was wondering how to record it. I will now be able to see at a glance what is working and what is not. I have a question - if I filter so I can see what is relevant such as you show on the later part of the video and keep it on that does the background data that is hidden still keep refreshing? kind regards Jim

@macmost

Ай бұрын

Yes. You can test it for yourself and see. (Testing things with sample documents is an important technique when working with spreadsheets).