[Context]
I have a spreadsheet for my spending so I can keep track of my budget each week. I've used conditional formatting and sometimes manual formatting to colour code each purchase by category. I was thinking it would be helpful to have a bar chart that shows me which category I'm spending the most in.
[Question]
I know that you can filter by cell formatting, so is there a smart way to go about this? Can Sheets see that this cell is this colour and so belongs to this category? And then to output a total of the value of each category? Or something along those lines.
Currently the only way I can think of doing it is by filtering by colour fill and taking all the data out manually and summing it. This obviously will be time consuming as it means I will have to constantly update this data as well as inputting my purchases. So not ideal :)
Thanks for your help everyone.