Hi Dave, Thanks very much for your reply. Yes this would be sufficient. Your suggestion that XL can monitor changes to A2 and store the cumulative total in A3 would be great. I would have about 50 similar accounts such as gas, books, donations, repairs etc. Would you be able to construct this macro? Best Regards, anton
On Jun 24, 1:49 am, Dave Bonallack <davebonall...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Anton, > > XL can almost do what you want, which may be sufficient for you. > > If you want to be able to enter your grocery expenditure always in the same > cell, XL can accumulate those entries in another cell using VBA. > > For example, You may enter your grocery expenditure always into A2, but the > actual accumulated total would appear in A3 (or any other cell you like). > This can be done by clicking a button after each entry into A2, or XL can > monitor changes to A2 and do the accumulation automatically. > > If this suits your purpose, there are lots of us in the group who could help > you achieve this. > > Regards - Dave. > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:22:58 -0700 > > Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ how to get cumulative sum in a cell > > From: a...@kwic.com > > To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com > > > Dear Group, > > I am constructing a single entry accounting spreadsheet in excel. i > > would like to input numbers for, say grocery expenses, in a cell of > > fixed location. when I buy more groceries i would like to type in the > > new expense in the same cell so that the output of that cell is the > > cumulative total expenses for groceries. > > any way to do this in excel? > > Thanks for reading, > > anton > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Some important links for excel users: > > 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links > > :http://twitter.com/exceldailytip > > 2. Join our LinkedIN group @http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 > > 3. Excel tutorials athttp://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com > > 4. Learn VBA Macros athttp://www.quickvba.blogspot.com > > 5. Excel Tips and Tricks athttp://exceldailytip.blogspot.com > > > To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com > > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > HELP US GROW !! > > > We reach over 7000 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about > > the learning and support from the group.Let friends and co-workers know > > they can subscribe to group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need a new place to live? Find it on > Domain.com.auhttp://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/- Hide quoted > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : http://twitter.com/exceldailytip 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 7000 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group.Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe
