The first steps involve entering the correct information into the spreadsheet.
 
1) First enter the "week of" for the current pay period. Usually this is on a Friday.
Any date format is acceptable.
2) Enter all the information for the first employee.
Social Security Number
Name
Marital Status (Note: Must be entered 1 for married, 2 for single!)
Number of Exemptions - As of this version, this is not a linked or
calculated number. This is only for pur-
poses of record keeping. Future versions
incorporate this function, allowing you to
change this number and effect the out-
come of the calculations. As of now it
does nothing.
Rate of Pay
Hours for that week.
All other calculations are automatically done. DO NOT attempt to enter numbers into any other cells.
3) Repeat step two for the next employee, until all employees are accounted for.
THAT'S IT! Now every week, all you need to do is enter the "Week of" and the Employees hours and you're done. Now doesn't that make payroll calculation easy?
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NOTE
*many spreadsheet programs can import this, as it is in SLYK format, however some changes in data format and formula language might be altered in the import.