Today I want to share an Employee Shift Calendar Template with you. You can use this template to keep track of shift timings on various days.
See a demo of the template:
How does this template work?
This template uses a 3 main ideas,
- Excel formulas to create the calendar & checking for a day’s shift
- Conditional formatting to highlight a date in different color based on shift
- Scroll-bar form control to change the month
Here is a brief illustration explaining how this template works:
For more information on these techniques visit,
- Building a Calendar in Excel
- VLOOKUP formula – Introduction & uses
- Conditional formatting – Introduction & tutorial
- Form Controls in Excel – What are they and how to use them?
- Range lookup in Excel – how to write formulas?
Download Excel Template for Employee Shift Tracking & Shift Calendar
Download the Employee Shift Tracking Template
Go ahead and play with the file to learn more.
How to use this template?
I made a short video explaining this template and how to use it. See it below (or on our YouTube Channel).
Do you like this template?
I like the challenge of building this template. It nicely integrates 3 powerful ideas – date formulas, conditional formatting & form controls to create a concise tracker to manage employee shift data.
What about you? Did you like this template? How are you planning to use it? Please share using comments.
More templates & downloads
We got more templates to make you awesome!!! Go ahead and try these and impress someone.
- New year resolutions template in Excel
- Holiday (Vacation) Request Form Template
- Free 2011 Calendar Template (secret: works for any year too)
- Annual Goal Tracker Template
- Expense Trackers
- Project Management Templates [for sale]
PS: Thanks to Denice, who emailed me and asked for this template.
15 Responses to “Make a Bubble Chart in Excel [15 second tutorial]”
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Whyyyyyyyy?
The idea is to tell how to make a bubble chart. I got an e-mail from a reader recently asking how the scatter bubble is made. So I thought a 15 second tutorial would be a good idea to show this.
Did that email go "Dear Chandoo, I know that you scorn bubble charts, but if I don't do one in Excel for my boss then he'll fire my sorry ass, and my children will have to be sold for medical experiments in order for me to be able to afford the upgrade path to Excel 2010"?
If so, fair enough...it's all in the greater good 😉
Chandoo,
I am using excel 2003 and it is not working. The x axis is not the one that I enter in x axis column. Please help! Thanks.
Sorry, after few attempts, I managed to get the right result. I shouldn't select the title (header) of the table and select only the data to produce the right bubble chart.
What's wrong with bubble charts? Is there a better method for displaying scatter plots with lots of overlapping data points? Don't tell me you'd rather jitter!
@Sanwijay: Cool.
@Precious Roy: There is nothing wrong with bubble charts. Infact, it is the only way to show 3 dimensional data (x,y and sizes) without confusing your audience. Jeff is worried that people might misuse the chart. As with any chart, bubbles also have a place and time for using them.
I recommend using bubble charts to show relative performance various products in several regions and similar situations.
Also, human eye is notorious in wrongly estimating the bubble sizes (as we have to measure areas). See http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/07/28/charting-lessons-from-optical-illusions/
We can partially improve bubble charts by adding data labels, but if you have too many bubbles, the labels will clutter the chart and make it look busy.
I can't seem to find a way to plot more than ten bubbles on a chart and need to know how to add more
@KW.. why would such a thing happen. I am sure you can add more bubbles that that. Can you tell us exactly what you are doing...
Example table:
A B C (size)
Me: 25 30 15%
Him: 30 22 11%
Her: 12 30 20%
I am trying to make a bubble chart where the Y axis is A, the X axis is B, and the size of the bubble is C. There should be only 3 bubbles. I keep ending up with six (with the labels being only "Me" and "Her"). My goal is to have three bubbles, one representing each person. Clearly I am doing something wrong. Can you help explain...?
Hi,
I wanted to add data labels to the bubbles. Each bubble represents a different company name. Excel allows me to add the size, legend, x axis values and y axis values. How do I add instead- Company A, B, C, D for the bubbles?
youon you have to choice every data for every company..
ex:create bubble for A company,after that click right> add data label> adjust data labels :format data labels and choose : series name.
i hop u will succeed .
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If we want bubble size to be controlled by one column, but the bubble labels to be controlled by another column, how can this be achieved?
many thanks!!!!