ITConnect KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EXPENSES WITH YNAB

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1 ITConnect Technology made practical for home APRIL 06 Edit PDF files with Word Word is the best tool we have at hand to edit PDFs without having to purchase extra software. Viruses distributed by Learn about viruses distributed as attachments and how to deal with them. Outlook Distribution lists Do you send regular s to the same group of people? Save time with Distributions lists! KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EXPENSES WITH YNAB YNAB helps your stick to your budget.

2 0 Outlook Distribution lists If you have a group of people you on a regular basis, like parents from the local school or your own family group, rather than type in their addresses one at a time, a distribution list will save you time and ensure no one gets left out. Once created, you simply type the name of the distribution list into the address field on your , and everyone in the group will receive a copy of your when you send it. If you don t want those in the group to see who else was copied into the , you will still need to use the BCC address field. Go to the People or Contacts section of Outlook and click the New Contact List if you are using Office 00 or later, or go to the File menu and select New then Distribution List if you are using Office 007. Type a name to describe this group in the Name box and then click the Add Members button to start adding people to the group. If all or some of the people you want to add are saved as contacts in Outlook, select the From Outlook contacts option and simply double click the people you want to add to the group. As you do this, they will be added to the Members box below. You can find particular people by using the Search box at the top of this window. Click OK once finished. For any people you want to add who aren t already saved in Outlook, select the New Contact option from the Add Members drop down list and enter their details. This person will be added to those already added in Step. Once you have finished, click the Save & Close button and the group will be saved to your contacts list. To send an to the group, open a new , and start typing the group s name in the address field. Select the group from the list of suggestions and it will be inserted into the . If you click the plus icon next to the group s name, the addresses in the group will be displayed, allowing you to remove any from this particular .

3 0 Keeping track of your expenses with YNAB YNAB or, You Need a Budget, is one of the most popular personal finance tools that not only helps you budget, but also helps you keep track of your spending. YNAB is an online tool, making collaboration very easy. First of all, security. Because your own personal finances are involved, YNAB has taken security very seriously, and used the best protection and encryption techniques available, meaning your data is very safe. Possibly the easiest way for someone to hack your account is to guess your password, so make sure you use a secure password. YNAB costs USD5.00 per month, or USD50.00 per year, but you can try it free for days before you have to provide your payment details if you wish to continue using it. Signing up is really easy, just go to click the blue free trial button, then enter your address and a secure password, that s it. An will be sent to your address with a link you need to click to confirm your address, do this now. Once confirmed, the YNAB website will open ready for you to start setting up your budget. Click the green Create a new budget button, enter a name for your budget and set the other settings, then click the Create Budget button. Now set up your accounts. YNAB has two types of accounts, Budget Accounts which represent accounts that hold money, and Tracking Accounts which represent accounts such as loans. Click the Add Account button and add your first account, such as your checking account. Enter a name, then select an account type from the drop down list. YNAB has the option to connect up with your bank account and automatically import transactions into YNAB to save you having to enter any expenses from the bank account manually. We won t activate that feature just yet, so remove the tick from the Transaction Import option, enter the current balance of this account, and click the Add Account button. CONT D ON NEXT PAGE...

4 0 5 6 Add any other accounts you have including cash on hand, then click the Budget menu. At the top is a green box which shows total available money, and to the left of that is the month you are budgeting for. Under this is the list of accounts, grouped by category. Expense accounts are called categories. To add a new category, hover your pointer over the group heading you want to add the new category to and click the plus icon that appears. Enter a name for the category and click OK. You can delete a category by clicking it, then clicking the Edit button that appears on the right and selecting Delete. To start budgeting, first add recurring expenses, such as power & telephone bills. 7 8 On the All Accounts menu, click the Add a transaction button and enter the required information for the transaction in each column. In the date column you can set a recurrence pattern. The save button is on the right end of the row. If you have regular income, you can also add this the same way, entering the amount in the Inflow column rather than the outflow. Next, go to the Budget section and click on the dollar amount in the Budgeted column for each category and enter the amount you would like to assign to that category. When you select a category, on the right hand side an inspector opens giving information about that category, including upcoming recurring payments. 9 0 As you budget, your available funds amount will update showing your how much you have left. To enter expenses as they happen, select the account that paid the expense on the left panel, and click the Add a transaction button and enter its details. All recurring expenses show greyed out until they are in the month they are due. Before an expense will show in the Activity column of your budget, it has to be cleared. This is like reconciling your bank account. In the list of transactions, click the cleared icon on the right hand side of the transaction list. As transactions are cleared, make sure the cleared balance showing in YNAB matches the real balance for that account. We strongly recommend you go to and read the Quick Start and User Handbook articles for more information. Also view our video for more detailed explanations.

5 05 Printing settings Although most times, simply pressing the print button, selecting the printer and clicking the ok button is good enough to print out a document, but you can change the settings to print particular pages, or save ink by using a lower quality print. There will be settings that are specific to your printer, for example a colour printer usually has the option to print in black and white, which wouldn t apply if your printer only prints in black and white. If your printer came with a user manual, it should cover settings specific to your printer, but here are some common ones. When you print a document, a printer is selected by default. If this isn t the printer you often use, press the Windows button and type Control Panel, then click the Control Panel icon in the search results to open in. Next, click Devices and Printers and a list of your installed printers will be displayed. Right the one you want to set as default and select Set as default printer When printing a document, especially with a colour printer, you may not need a high quality print, which uses a lot of ink. There is usually a Printer Properties button or link on the print menu. Click this button then locate the Print Quality setting and set it to Draft. Some printers have advanced settings with the option to print in black and white only, or in a grey scale. If you have a large document and only want to print some of the pages in it, look for the pages setting and enter the page number you want to print. You can specify multiple pages by separating them with a comma, like this:,5,7,0, or you can print a range by specifying the first and last page with a hyphen in between, like this: 5-5. Another setting to save paper is to print multiple pages on a single sheet. Usually two pages per sheet is the most practical because anything more than this will make the print very small. Most programs have a setting for this in the print menu. In Word there is a drop down list at the bottom of the settings page, with several different configurations to choose from.

6 06 Absolute & Relative cell references in Excel Although Excel may not be used as heavily in the home as it is in the business, learning this fundamental tip about cell references in formulas will help you avoid mistakes when creating Excel formulas. Absolute & Relative References are important to know if you copy and paste cells that contain formulas, which is what a lot of us do in the business world to save time. Surprisingly enough, a lot of users are not aware of what we are going to show you, which is why they take longer to create an Excel spreadsheet, or worse, decisions are made using data with errors in the formulas. The best way to teach this is with this example: Open a new Excel sheet and type the number 5 in cell A. In cell B, enter this formula: =A*0. The result should be 50. Now copy cell B, and paste it in cell B just below it. Cell B should display a 0. Click on cell B and observe the formula. You will notice that the formula no longer refers to cell A, but instead is pointing to cell A. This is because by default formulas treat cell references as relative to the position of the cell with the formula in this case, the original formula pointed to the cell to the left of the cell with the formula, and when you copy and paste this cell, it will always refer to the cell to the left, and in most cases, this behaviour is ok. For example, if we created a sum formula at the bottom of a list and then copied it across multiple columns, the formulas update to give us a total of each list. If you need to create a formula that refers to a particular cell regardless of where you copy it to, then you need to use an absolute reference. Go back to cell B and edit the formula so it looks like this: =$A$*0. Now copy and paste the formula anywhere you like, and again, observe the formula of the pasted cell. You will notice it still points to cell A, it is an absolute reference, because it has the dollar signs in it. You can use just one $ sign, such as $A, which will keep the column reference fixed, but the row reference will still be relative to the copied cell.

7 07 The Function (F) keys The F keys at the top of your keyboard are shortcut keys which are used for different commands depending on the program you are using, or when used together with the FN key, next to the CTRL key, can be used for changing settings on your computer. There are function keys along the top of your keyboard, numbered F through to F. Function keys can be used by themselves, or as part of a shortcut together with the shift or CTRL keys. When used together with the FN key, it will perform actions on your computer, such as changing the speaker volume or brightness of your screen. Key Windows Outlook Excel Word F F is universally recognized as the shortcut for opening the help menu for the program you are using. F Select a file and press the F key to edit its name. Click on a cell and press the F button to edit it s contents. CTRL + F displays the print preview window (Works for Excel too). F Selects the Search box ready for you to type in a search term. Selects the Search box ready for you to type in a search term. Press the F key in Excel to insert a named range in a formula (advanced). Shift + F key changesthe case of the selected text (uppercase, lowercase). F Press the ALT and F keys to close the current window or program. Opens the find and replace box Repeats the last action you performed on your Spreadsheet. Repeats the last action you performed on your document. F5 Will reload the page in internet browsers. Displays the Go To dialog box. Displays the Go To dialog box. F6 Will select the address bar in most internet browers. Loops through the main menu items and workspace. Loops through the main menu items and spreadsheet. Loops through the main menu items and document. F7 Runs spell check. Runs spell check. Runs spell check. F8 Press ALT + F8 to open the Macro menu. Press ALT + F8 to open the Macro menu. Press ALT + F8 to open the Macro menu. F9 Will send/receive s. Recalculates all formulas in open Excel workbooks. F0 Displays the menu bar for some browsers. F Opens browser window in full screen view. Will create a chart with the data currently selected. F Opens the Save As menu. Opens the Save As menu. Opens the Save As menu. Most of the function keys have an extra icon on them that indicates settings you can change by pressing the FN button together with that function keys. The FN key is usually located between the CTRL and ALT key on the bottom row of keys, and you can usually change settings such as the brightness of the screen or the volume of the speakers.

8 08 Edit PDF files with Word PDF files never start off as a PDF file, they are digital print outs of another file created in a program such as Word, Excel or a graphic design program. There are expensive programs available to edit PDFs, but Word does a good job for basic edits. The best way to edit a PDF is not to edit it at all, but make changes to the original file the PDF was created from, and then create a new PDF file once the changes are made. If the PDF file is all you have, it can be edited using Word with reasonable results, without having to pay for expensive professional software for this purpose. Click on the File menu in Word, select the Open menu and browse to the folder that contains the PDF file. Once you have located the PDF file, double click it to open it. Word will display a message warning that the process to convert the file into Word could take a while. How long depends on the complexity and size of the file. What you have now is a copy of your PDF file in Word format so any changes you make to this file will not affect your original PDF file. The first step should be to save your file in Word format so any changes you make are saved. Press the F button to open the Save As dialog box and save the file on your computer. Not all PDFs will open up perfectly, and it make take some work to adjust and maybe redo parts of the file, as well as the changes you want to make to the file itself. If the PDF contains text in an image, you will not be able to edit that text. Another issue you may find is that the font type in the PDF will not match the fonts in Word. Once you have completed the edits, save the Word file and then save it a second time but this time choosing PDF as the file type to save the file back into PDF format. If you ever need to make changes to the same file again, go back to the Word version of it rather than trying to convert the PDF file back to word again.

9 09 Changing clock and regional settings The regional settings on your computer control how things such as the time and currencies are displayed on your computer. For example, if you wanted to change your computer time to display in the hour format, this is where you go to change it. The regional settings on your computer actually impacts other programs as well, for example the thousand and decimal separator used in Excel is actually set in the regional settings, as well as how dates and times are displayed in Outlook. Press the Windows button and type Control Panel, then click the Control Panel icon in the search results to open it. Next, click the Region option on the control panel to open the dialog box for these settings. A quick way to set these settings is to select your region from the format drop down list. Below the format drop down list are two more drop down lists which allow you to set the format of the date. A d by itself represents the Day in a single or double digit, so the first of the month would show as, without a preceding 0. dd represents the day in a double digit format, so the first of the month would show as 0. The same applies for the month (m). In the long date settings, letters in a row indicate the day or month spelled out, rather than in number form, and three letters in a row indicate an abbreviated version of the day or month. The time format is similar, with the difference that a lowercase h indicates the hour format, and a capital H, the hour time format. By clicking the Additional Settings button, you can access extra settings, including customized settings for the date and time, as well as how numbers are displayed and the default currency sign, which would impact how numbers are displayed by default in Excel. If at any time you want to undo any changes you have made, click the Reset button at the bottom of this window.

10 0 Viruses distributed by If you have a good internet filter in place, it is very unlikely you will be able to access a website that could infect your computer with a virus, but viruses can be distributed by in attachments, which what we look at in this article. This article is based on the ESET antivirus, but the instructions will be similar for most other professional anti-viruses as well. A Virus as an attachment Unlike many people think, as long as you are using an up to date version of Outlook, simply opening or reading an in the preview pane is unlikely to infect your computer, but opening an attachment with a virus will certainly infect your computer. The s themselves are designed to trick you into opening the attachment using all sorts of different stories and techniques. Some examples are s making out to be from a post office with a form attached you need to fill out to receive a package that has been sent to you, or another common is one with an invoice or statement attached saying payment is overdue. There are many variations, but the one thing in common is that they have an attachment with a virus in it. Make sure protection is turned on ESET and many other antivirus programs can scan your s in Outlook and detect a dangerous as it is received and delete the attachment. To make sure this is working on your computer, locate the antivirus icon next to the time on your computer and double click it to open the antivirus settings. In Eset click on the Setup menu and select the Web and tab. Now click the cog icon next to the client protection option and make sure the Integrate into Microsoft Outlook and Enable protection by client plugins options are ticked. Next go to Outlook and click on the File menu and select Options. On the left side, select Add-Ins and select COM Add-ins from the Manage drop down list, then click the Go button and make sure the ESET Outlook Add-in item is ticked. If one gets through, scan it manually If you receive an with a suspect attachment, do not open it. Instead right click the attachment and select Save As and save it to your desktop. Now go to your desktop, do not open the file, but right click it and select Scan with Eset. The antivirus will check the file and very quickly tell you whether the file is safe to open or not. If the file does contain a virus, it will most likely be deleted by the antivirus program, but it will need to be immediately deleted from Outlook manually. When deleting the in Outlook, press the Shift key with the Delete key so it is completely removed rather than just sent to the Deleted Items folder.