Budgeting
You can see the formula behind every calculated cell instead of its result, and you know where else the same switch appears.
The Quantity, Price/Unit and X columns normally show what a cell **evaluates to**. The **fx** toggle in the toolbar switches them to show **what is written in them** instead.
A budget built with variables looks, at a glance, exactly like one built by typing numbers — both show numbers. The difference only becomes visible when you switch the view.
That makes fx the tool for three jobs:
- **Auditing an inherited budget.** Which quantities are tied to the schedule and which were typed in once and forgotten? Only the formula view distinguishes them. - **Finding what a change will move.** Before editing a variable, switch on fx and see which cells reference it. - **Copying an approach.** Reading how one account was built is faster than reconstructing it.
The same toggle is in the Extra Costs settings and in the apply panels, for the same reason: those fields also take formulas, and their contents are equally invisible until you ask.
fx is a view. Nothing is recalculated, nothing is stored differently, and no total moves. Switch it on and off as often as you like.
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