Keeping Track of Your
Possessions with a Digital Home
Inventory
Cori Pippins
Disasters, both natural and man-made, are becoming
more and more frequent in today’s world.
We never know when something may happen to disrupt our lives. If your personal property is destroyed or
stolen, having an inventory (hard evidence) of the missing items to give the
insurance company will improve your chances of recouping your financial losses.
This project was designed to help keep track of
all of a person’s belongings. The format
would also be adaptable to a business environment. Everything needed to keep track of the
inventory is located in a single directory, making backing up the data easier. The files could potentially
be synched with online storage or transferred to a USB memory device. There are two needed components to manage
this project: an excel file and a folder to house pictures.
When you open the excel spreadsheet, you will
first land on a summary sheet.
There are multiple tabs across the bottom indicating the different types
of belongings you would need to keep track of, including properties, vehicles,
individual items within the home, and food storage. There is also a section to save important
information about family members. Each
tab has buttons that when clicked will add a new entry, view/edit the current
entry, or delete the current entry. To
add or edit an entry, the user will interface with a form. The subsequent sections will go over how to
use these properties.
In addition to the individual tabs at the bottom of
the spreadsheet, there is a tab on the ribbon entitled “Home Inventory”. This ribbon contains several
buttons needed to make modifications to the spreadsheet. The purpose of these buttons will also be
discussed in subsequent sections.
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