I use google suggest to get new post ideas, I start out by typing “what is”, “who is”, “how to”, “when is”, “where is”, “excel” and see all the suggestions Google comes up with. If I see something interesting I would mark the search topic and use it for posting here. And for the last few days I have been seeing that when I try “who is”, the search query “who is (Barack) Obama?” is popping up. Either he is really unknown (unlikely) or provoking curiosity in many people.
Ok, time for sharing another set of juicy excel posts around the web:
Do Gapminder like Motion charts in excel, the kind you saw in the Olympic medals visualization in Excel. Jon @ PTS Blog has put together a generic approach for creating motion charts in excel. Very simple and useful. Of course, if you want even simpler method, you can always use motioncharts widget in google docs spreadsheet app.
Formatting dates in pivot chart, of course if you try the usual route of “format axis > number format” and set it to show the date nov-10 instead of 11/10/2008, it wouldnt work. You have to use the technique highlighted at the contextures blog.
Excel UDFs for advanced linear interpolation, conversion of co-ordinates from rectangular to polar If you use excel to do graph related analysis, to build 2d / 3d models then this set of downloadable UDFs by Newton Bach’s blog would be very useful to you.
How to create a perpetual yearly calendar in Excel Do you have a nagging question around “what’s date of the eighth Thursday of 1922” teases the Microsoft Excel Blog, of course, they answer it too, with a downloadable perpetual yearly calendar in Excel for those of you who need to do lots of date analysis.
Finally, if you are not the kind who would read excel articles on a Tuesday, here is a short TED talk by Prof. Hans Rosling on Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen. It is extremely insightful and entertaining. So enjoy the next 20 minutes.
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11 Responses to “FREE Calendar & Planner Excel Template for 2025”
Hi,
I downloaded this 2025 Calendar template. I checked the custom tab. Is it possible to change the weekend Fri & Sat.
Thanks
It is. Just use the option for fri & sat weekend (should be 7).
Activities of some dates are not getting displayed on "Any month" and "printable calendar" sheets.
e.g. Activity of 24 Apr 25.
Can you check again? The date in "planner" sheet should be a proper date. When I tested with 24-apr-2025, it works.
Love this calendar... I have highlight planner dates enabled but all dates are blue, is it possible to customize the color based on the type assigned to each date?
What would be the right way to add more Holidays in the Customizations?
Inserting rows in the Holiday List causes the blank cells in the calendar to turn Blue.
This is amazing!!! The best I've seen so far!! Is it possible to update it to consider a column for the final date? That way, if an event lasts more than one day, it repeats in the calendar
How do we change/insert the customization "Icon Options" ?
You can adjust these from the settings tab.
Is there anyway this can turn into an academic calendar (ie. start month is July and runs all the way through June of next year)?
Is there a way to make it something that is more than a day without having to add it to every day of that week.