Calendar Template in Excel

Excel Calendar Template

Excel has a wide variety of useful tools but one of the criticism is it doesn’t have any built-in calendar tool. Yes we don’t have any built-in calendar, I know you have seen some of the calendar templates in excel but those are created by excel users. We need to create a calendar template in excel by using excel formulas.

In this article, we will show you how to create a calendar template in excel. We can create calendar templates in two ways – one with a simple excel calendar and the second one a dynamic calendar with formulas.

How to Create a Calendar Template in Excel?

#1 – Simple Excel Calendar Template

Simple excel calendar template doesn’t require any special formulas, with simple techniques we can create a simple calendar.

Step 1: The first thing we see with the calendar is Month with Year name. So for this, we need to create a Month Name. For this first apply TODAY formula in excel which takes the current date as per system.

Today is a volatile function it automatically updates the date as per the system date, to today’s date is 17^th June 2019, so tomorrow it will be 18^th June 2019.

However, we don’t need a full date like the above we need only Month & Year together. So apply the date format in excel as “MMMM YYYY”.

Now we have a proper month & year.

Step 2: Now in the below row enter weekdays starting from Sunday to Saturday. And merge the A1 cell until the G1 cell.

Step 3: Now we need to create calendar days like 1, 2, and 3, and so on.

I have entered the day with Sunday, 2^nd Saturday, 4^th Saturday, etc…

This is ordinary stuff that needs to change the dates every month manually. But how do we make this dynamic so that it shows the updated month with days? Let’s see this now.

#2 – Dynamic Excel Calendar Template with Formulas

For the same template as above, we will create a dynamic calendar.

Step 1: To the left of the template insert Spin Button from Developer tab.

Step 2: Right-click on the spin button and choose format control.

Step 3: Under format control make below changes.

Step 3: Since we are creating the calendar for the specific month we will create 12 different sheets for 12 different months. For this, we need to create 12 different name managers. First name the cell I3 as “Year”.

First, we will create for January 2019. So change the heading of the month from TODAY formula to as follows.

Now for this month, we need to create one more name manager as shown below.

Similarly, by changing the month number create a name manager for all the months.

Step 4: Now with the same template above insert 12 sheets and name each sheet with 12-month names.

Step 5: Now in the “Jan” Sheet in the first-day column apply the below formula.

=IF(AND(YEAR(JanOffset+1)=Year,MONTH(JanOffset+1)=1),JanOffset+1,””)

Copy and paste the formula to the next cell but change the number 1 to 2 everywhere.

Similarly for the next change it to 3.

Similarly, increase everything by 1.

Step 6: Copy the above template to the FEB sheet. Here only thing we need to change is MONTH from 1 to 2.

Apply the same logic for all the worksheets. Change the month accordingly.

Once all the sheets are done with template changing and formula, we can control the template from “Jan” Sheet.

Step 7: Using the “Spin” button we can change the Year in the “Jan” sheet, accordingly when we change the year in the “Jan” sheet in all the sheets the selected year’s dates will show up.

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