I don’t remember when was the last time both of us (Jo and I) were this excited. And the reason?
Nakshatra and Nishanth have started taking their first steps last week !!!
It is such a joy watching them take one step at a time. Aah, the beauty of parenting 🙂
So I asked myself, “What is a good way to celebrate this without looking like a super-excited dad?” and I got my answer in 72 milli-seconds.
I have created 10 short (<10 min) videos helping you to take baby steps in Excel world. Each video introduces you to one new functionality of Excel and shows you some nice examples.
Before jumping straight in to the videos, I want to share a short clip (30 seconds) of our kids taking their baby steps.
[Watch the video clip on Chandoo.org]
Look at them, although, they are scared and probably worried, they look so happy extending the leg in to unknown. If only we kept that curiosity until we get really old…,
The Excel Tutorials:
I have neatly structured all the videos in Excel Tutorial page.
You can learn the following topics from there,
- Introduction to Microsoft Excel
- Formatting Data in Excel – Basics
- How to Make a Chart in Excel?
- Writing Simple Formulas in Excel
- Introduction Conditional Formatting in Excel
- Introduction to Excel Tables
- Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables
- Using Excel Productively – Keyboard Shortcuts
- Printing Your Workbooks
- 10 Things you can do in Excel under 10 Minutes
How to get the most out of these videos:
- Start with first one and slowly graduate to next steps. No need to hurry, just take one step at a time.
- Keep Excel open and play as you go along.
- Pause wherever you want, repeat some steps until you are clear
- Follow the links beneath the video for more juicy and exciting stuff
- Don’t worry if you fall down or didn’t understand something. It is bound to happen, the sooner you fall, the faster you learn.
Spread the word:
Not about my kids walking. But about the awesome training material at Excel Tutorials page. Tell your friends or colleagues by dropping an email or sharing the URL. Just copy paste the below line.
Hey, check out http://chandoo.org/wp/excel-tutorial/ for some awesome excel tutorials.
That is all, go ahead and take your Excel Baby Steps 🙂
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.