Appendix — Creating a custom Expense Report

Programming the mapping table

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In the Date cell, enter the row or column number where all the date information will be placed.

In the Dates cell, enter the number of blank columns (or rows) separating the date fields. If there are no blank columns (or rows) between date entries, leave this number set to zero.

In the Start Day cell, enter the day of the week that starts the expense reporting period. Enter a three-character abbreviation for the day (e.g., Sun, Mon, Tue).

In the Day cell, enter the row or column number where all the day information will be placed. If the dates are in a row, enter the row number. If the dates are in a column, enter the column number.

12Determine whether the Section is in list format. This setting appears in the light purple columns (18-19).

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If the Section will present the data in a list format, enter the word “yes”. Otherwise, enter the word “no”.

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Only if your section is in list format: In the Expense Type cell, enter the number of the row or column where the expense description will be placed. Expense amounts can be entered in several different columns or rows if required by your template. Expense type labels must all appear in the same column.

13Enter the row or column numbers for the expense types that appear in the Section. These settings appear in the aqua columns (20-48).

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For these settings, simply enter the row or column number for the expense types that you want to appear in the Section. Note that you can use a row or column number more than once. An example of this would be meals that encompass breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. In the previous example, all expense items would be populated into row/column 4 of the custom Expense Report.

14Complete the table. All of the remaining columns (49-57) in the table are used to define the column or row number that corresponds to the description.

15Mark a Section for prepaid expenses (yellow column). If a row in the map table is for prepaid (company paid) expenses, type a “yes” in the cell on that Section’s row. Type “no” in all the cells of this column that do not pertain to prepaid expenses.

16Repeat steps 9 through 15 for each Section that you have defined for your custom Expense Report.

17Map Expense Report Options dialog (magenta section). The Expense Report Options dialog has five fields where you can fill in data for the header on your

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