Word has many 2024 calendars in the File | New templates supplied by Microsoft. There are tricks to getting the most from the templates and make them personal and special. Search for ‘ calendar’ in the File | New pane. They are all programmed templates, type in type in the
Here’s a better and more flexible version of the Calendar Creator with both Sunday and Monday start of week. Office Watch reader, David Peel, has made a better, more compatible Calendar Creator. We added some different versions to suit other calendar formats. We’ve told you about The Mystery of Excel’s
There are 2024 calendar templates available for PowerPoint, giving you landscape oriented calendars but less options overall. Landscape calendars PowerPoint calendars aren’t just for presentations. They offer printable landscape orientation calendars not usually available in Word or Excel. Look for the overall layout you want, change the images and colors
Each of the Outlook printed calendars has some options to improve what’s shown on the page. Task List, Upcoming appointments and blank note space can all be selected to suit you. If you want to define your calendar options you have to ‘click deep’ into what Microsoft calls ‘styles’ (no
Excel can make calendars from some supplied templates. Some templates are labelled with a specific purpose however a few simple changes can make them better and suit what you need. Sadly, the help with the templates can be wrong or misleading. Here’s just one example to show what’s possible to
Microsoft Word can make Yearly and Monthly calendars quite easily and they have better configuration options than you might expect. We’ve already looked at the Outlook printing options , customizing them including blank Weekly and Monthly calendars. Outlook doesn’t have a yearly calendar option, so we’re turning to Word. We’ll look
A clever and different year planner with a progress thermometer is now available for download as an Excel workbook. The days remaining in the year are visible with weekends shaded and each day of week shown. At the bottom is a clever use of Excel’s Chart features to make a
Our Year Planner Excel workbook download is just the start. Here are many suggestions for changes to improve or customize the download. Tips for changing the headings, overall look, change financial year, highlight public holidays, change the look of a day in the week, change weekend shading or day label.
How to add a calendar as quick reference to your desktop on Windows or Mac. It can be a yearly, monthly or weekly calendar, just like the old paper calendar / blotting paper on an office desktop in olden times (i.e. 20 years ago)! A handy place to put a
Here’s a great Excel yearly planner that we’re delighted to share. It works for 2024 or any other year you like and highlights Public Holidays in a simple and elegant way. Office Watch friend David Peel from the UK made this workbook and let us share with our readers. He’s
Excel has a Calendar Creator template which might work or might not. Why it doesn’t work is a little mystery but we have an alternative for our readers. The ‘Calendar Creator (any year’) template sounds great … a one-page year calendar. Find it from File | New then search for
Outlook provides you with many printing options to put your calendar onto real, physical paper or save to PDF. Print and customize your calendar information, be it your daily schedules, weekly schedules or monthly plans. It also allows you to print specific dates you want to. It might seem ‘old
Here’s how to quickly print a blank calendar from Outlook with no appointments, notes etc – monthly, weekly or a single day. Use a blank printout to roughly plan a week or month in a way not possible in Outlook. Or save the printout to a PDF that you can
Outlook can handle more than one calendar and has three options for easily viewing them, either individually or combined. Calendars can be displayed side-by-side or the more useful Overlay option. There’s also the ‘New Window’ option. Choosing the Outlook calendars to view In Outlook calendar view, use the check boxes
Word has many calendars in the File | New templates supplied by Microsoft. Search for “calendar” in the File | New pane then make simple changes to suit you. In Microsoft Word’s File | New pane, search for ‘calendar’. There are two basic calendar designs: Start of Week Some have
The only specific 2020/2021 calendar template in Microsoft Word is an academic calendar from August 2020 to July 2021, here’s how to use it and make it better. In File | New search for ‘academic calendar’ there are a few options. We’re looking at ‘Academic year calendar’. A few notes
He’s done it again, David Peel has quickly made up a new version of his Excel Year Planner that starts the year from any month you choose. Great for academic years (start in August) or financial years (e.g. Aussie start in July). The year selector is top left of the
If you’re looking for 2019 calendar options, open up Microsoft Excel. Excel has a wide range of calendar templates to choose from. Go to File | New and type ‘calendar’ into the search box. There’s a proverbial embarrassment of riches. Pick a year All the Excel templates apply to any
