# This Week In Hledger 2024-03-29

**URL:** <https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29/221>\
**Category:** News\
**Tags:** hledger, spreadsheets\
**Created:** [March 30, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29/221 "2024-03-30T06:53:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29/221/1 "2024-03-30T06:53:23Z")

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## This Week In Hledger 2024-03-29

[https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29](https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29)

**sm**

Doc rewrites, error message improvements.

**Misc**

- More [discussion](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/hledger-how-to-calculate-interest-with-rate-changing-in-the-middle-of-the-year/208) of hledger-interest, a call for improvements, and a [pull request](https://github.com/peti/hledger-interest/pull/23) by Dmitry Astapov.

- Some [discussion](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/excel/219) of exporting to Excel/spreadsheets.

- How much attention to bookkeeping is just right ? [blog post](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/a-possible-to-overlook-benefit-to-using-plain-text-accounting/220)

Feel free to share your experience reports or interesting links (they don't have to be new) on the [PTA forum](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/).

**Quotes**

_The initial setup of the books is pretty time consuming especially if you have a lot of accounts. I recommend starting your most important accounts and adding as you go along. --abhiyerra_