E + G + W spreadsheet
 

I like to keep a close eye on my utilities costs, which I do via an Excell spreadsheet. Its a spreadsheet I found somewhere, modified and adapted to what I wanted - Weekly readings of E&G for the year, including standing charges. To that (with some help) I am now adding provision for water meter readings with consumption / cost graphs for all three and some prediction of the annual costs.

You feed the costings in on page 1, the readings weekly into page 2, then you see the output on page 2 and graphed data on page 3.

Once this version is completed and tested, might anyone want a copy?

Would love one thanks Harry
- I've enjoyed playing with (and making sensible use of) spreadsheets from Supercalc, through Lotus 123 and gawd knows how many versions of Excel.

It's amazing what you can do with Excell, I've used it for several years with both home, car and business accounts.

id love to have one as well

I'll get back to everyone, when it is finished and tested.

I have sent both Rewort and flying pig an email via the forum, in order to get their email address to send the spreadsheet. Hopefully both have used valid email addresses when registering?

I love Excel! So much time can be happily wasted coming up with formulas and macros to do stuff that you could achieve manually if you could be bothered, but where's the fun in that!

Seem to recall helping you with a time/expenses spreadsheet a while back Harry? By a while back, I mean around 6 years! :eek:

Have a vague recollection of that. My memory is not what it used to be, but then it never was :D

Yes I have spent endless, not entirely wasted, hours on this spreadsheet. I used to love playing about with numbers in my latter years at school, when all we had was pen, paper and log tables. It was a revelation when I went to college and I found there were easier ways, like slide-rules. As soon as calculators came out, I bought a then very expensive used LED display HP, driving 50 miles to collect it. That took me into home built micro-processor systems and a bit of programming. I sort of lost interest when everyone had a PC.

I show Jane the spreadsheet, as we both share the bills and her eyes just start rolling :duh:

In an Excel spreadsheet, what is the correct formulae to use for a column of figures to get an average value, but ignoring/ not counting the rows into which no numbers have yet been entered please?

Column is Y, the rows I am interested in are 5 to 60, there is only data so far entered into rows 5 to 18, so I want it to provide an average just those 13 rows, incrementing as more data is added in the rest?

=AVERAGE(Y5:Y60) provides an average value for all of the rows. I want to not count the ones with no data in them.

Sorted! - =AVERAGEIF(Y5:Y60,">0")

Sorry, I have just noticed I have somehow managed to post this in the wrong forum, perhaps a mod could move it to the Technology forum please?

Darn, you got yourself sorted before I could look at this! ;)

I can't use AVERAGEIF as I am still resolutely sticking with Excel 2003. I do have 2007 as well, but don't like the ribbon interface and also there's lots of things that 2007 will do natively that 2003 won't and finding ways to do them programatically is more fun!

This will work for 2003, and ignores not only zeros, but blanks and text as well! :)

=SUM(Y5:Y60)/SUMPRODUCT((Y5:Y60<>0)*ISNUMBER(Y5:Y60))

Just had a look on your costs and by the look of it i spend more in a week than you in a month for the past few months my weekly spendings are £50 on gas and about £12 on electrics:getmecoat: