I received a letter today from Minnesota Revenue that I still owed income taxes for 2013.
My first look at my spreadsheet didn’t find anything wrong. Maybe the state wasn’t considering the tax withheld by payers to us. When I looked further, I had put fixed data in a worksheet rather than linking to a figure elsewhere. Ouch!
I won’t let the state off entirely. The letter only listed the estimated tax payments I had made, not the tax withheld.
As I was adjusting my spreadsheet, Microsoft sent a notice that upgrades to Office were available. I waited for these to be downloaded and installed, and then continued my correction of my tax spreadsheet.
The download or my correction may have been a big mistake. Excel crashed twice! The restored spreadsheet looked was altered in bad ways. Not only were the fonts in some cells changed, the size and shading of a window was changed. The resulting sheets were ugly!
Speaking of spreadsheets, I won’t let Apple get off the hook. For some reason, Apple has not included named cells or groups of cells in Numbers as in Excel. One has to use an obscure coding using a page name and row numbers and column letters. At least, if one changes the location of the cell or group, Numbers does adjust for the change.
