Time for action – using a smartphone to save expense data

Let's say that you have expenses saved in your smartphone in a spreadsheet application. You would like to import these transactions into GnuCash.

1. Prerequisites: A smartphone with a spreadsheet application. You have saved a few cash transactions in the spreadsheet application.

2. Connect your phone to your PC and upload the spreadsheet file. You can upload to any popular spreadsheet of your choice such as OpenOffice.org⁴ Calc or Excel² or Google Docs³.

3. Open the spreadsheet in your PC and save the data in a CSV (Comma Separated Values) format. OpenOffice.org Calc and Excel will you give you an option in the Save As dialog to choose a type. Google Docs has a Download As CSV option for its spreadsheet.

4. When you have completed the preceding step, you should have a file named expenses.csv in your PC with the saved data.

   Note

   Make sure that you delete the header, if there are any in the spreadsheet, before saving the data in CSV format. If there...