In the 44th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about failures.
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- Book announcement about Dashboards for Excel
- Story of my first ever dashboard
- Important lessons – Requirement Analysis for dashboards
- Resources for creating awesome dashboards
- Podcasts
- Books
- Courses
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Resources to make awesome dashboards
Podcast episodes:
- Create awesome dashboards with this 10 step process
- Make better charts by optimizing Data to Ink ratio
- Rules for making legendary column charts
Books on Dashboards:
- Information dashboard design by Stephen Few
- Non-designers design book by Robin Williams
- Dashboards for Excel by Jordan & Chandoo
Courses:
- Excel School + Dashboards – Online classes from Chandoo
Excel School, is a comprehensive online course to help you become awesome in all aspects of data analysis, visualization, interactive workbooks, dashboard reporting and automation.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Analyze data using simple & advanced formulas in Excel
- Structure & process large volumes of data quickly using tables & pivot tables
- Present information using charts, interactive & dynamic charts and complex charts
- Create dashboards using 8 in-depth tutorials & case studies
- Make gorgeous workbooks using conditional formatting, color & font choices and more
- Develop workbooks faster: using my favorite tricks and productivity hacks
Please click here to know more about Excel School and enroll
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Help our community & me learn more by sharing your mistakes
It’s your turn. Share the mistakes you made during data analysis, dashboard preparation or automation projects. Let’s all learn from these and become stronger.
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.