Budget Spreadsheet, need help...

Using the default budget spreadsheet, in the Monthly Expenses box where you plug in costs, is there anyway to set a percent and if you're overspending to make the text a bold red text?
I have it setup with a few categories, and I want my checks to be a certain percentage (let's say I make 1600 a month, going to Army as an E-3), but have how much I want to invest (25% shelter, 15% food, 15% transportation, 5% clothing, 10% personal life, 10% social life, 5% home life, 15% investments and savings).
I just want to plug in the cost, and see if I'm going over my budget at a glance... any quick way of doing so?

Hoodsey,
You could get Numbers to display over-costs in red (but not bold) but it would require you to manually calculate the "amount over point" for each category, enter that number in the conditional format definition for each category, and then go through the process again each time you got a pay increase or changed your percent.
I would suggest modifying the Monthly expense table to include two new columns. The first (could be hidden) would list your desired percent for each category and the second would display a symbol when the cost exceeded the percent you assigned. The second column formula is:
=IF(Costs Shelter>Pct Shelter0.01Monthly Net Income :: Amount $Available Cash,"W","")
If your cost for the category is <= the percent assigned the cell is blank, If not, a symbol (W in the example) appears. By marking the column for print bold, and setting the cells to be conditional, you will have the red-bold feature you wanted.
This is not exactly what you wanted, but it's a reasonable work-around.
pw

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