How To Make A Calendar In Excel

Ever been remotely curious how to make a calendar in Excel?

Are you having a hard time keeping up with everything?

Solve the issue by organizing your time and daily time schedule with the use of a calendar.

Sounds easy - except most calendars in retail stores don't stock the right kind of calendar you'd want.

And writing down details on your calendar is more of a hassle than it's worth. Who wants to miss important dates or information?

Solve this challenge by making your own calendar using Excel! Design your OWN personalized calendar using Excel based on your exact needs and personal style.

Creating An Excel Calendar

An Excel calendar is the sort of calendar that becomes an incredibly helpful tool for career oriented individuals especially when you can store it on any office (or home) computer.

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MS Excel

The Excel calendar helps you store all your appointments, meetings and events you need to attend.

You can refer to the calendar anytime without having to worry about missing another party or being late to an important corporate or business event.

And you can design your own calendar free of charge too. Create it in full color or simple black and white. The things that you can do with Excel calendars are almost endless.

Follow these steps to make a calendar in Excel:


  • Identify whether you want to print out or use the calendar for your personal office use. For printing, determine the size of paper to be used.
  • Bigger designs may be made and printed in computer or printing outlets while A4 sized calendars may be printed at home. Determine how many months you want on each page.
  • Open up the Excel program to a new file. This starts you with a blank spreadsheet.
  • Some computers already have a calendar template on their system. Check this by accessing the templates folder from 'My Network Places.' Or find calendar templates at the Microsoft Office website when you create a new workbook.
  • Look for the type and style of Excel calendar that you need from the Microsoft Office Web. Click download to acquire the template. With this in your system you can make use of the format anytime when needed.
  • Change the colors of each day or month to help organize the calendar in a style you prefer. Customizing the Excel template by making Monday the first day of the week will help you easily manage your work week!

Making your own Excel calendar also means that you don't need to purchase any calendar or expensive notebook planners ever again to organize your activities!

After all, for Excel, all you really need is Microsoft Excel, a computer and an Internet connection!

Whether for your home or office use, making a calendar in Excel might just be the most convenient way of managing the things that you need to attend to each day, week or month!

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Excel yearly calendar template (screenshot)

Using Your Excel Calendar Template

Depending on what you actually want to do with your calendar, a good Excel calendar will allow you to easily enter the year and generate an infinite number of printable yearly calendars.

While you're there, customize colors, fonts, borders and save them as unique themes. Or just create your own theme! Basically you can print calendars of your color and choice.

If you're hungry for more, there's also the supercharged version, a 'more powerful' Excel calendar with additional features.

This allows you to add special events, important dates, birthdays, holidays, mini calendars and more. You can snap up the PRO version right here (See pic below).


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Make a calendar in Excel easily using this PRO version










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