Calendar creation

[BarbaraJoy]

I am attempting to design my own calendar template since the ones that I have found are not what I need. I have a couple of questions
Is there a way to enter in the days of the week with a formula or is it easiest just to type them in?
is there a way to put the dates into a month at a glance with a formula or should I just type them in individually?
Thanks in advance.

 

[My Aswer Is This]

Explain more about what type calendar you want.
Here is one I created for myself but not sure what you want.
This script creates a calendar for the current month and highlights todays date.

Sub Your_Calendar()
'Modified 12-2-17 4:55 PM EST
ans = InputBox("What Range Should First Cell Be ?" & vbNewLine & "If left empty will use active cell", , "E7")
If ans = "" Then ans = ActiveCell.Address
Range(ans).Resize(5, 7).Select
Selection.Name = "Month"
Range("Month").Font.Size = 16
Dim z As Integer
z = 0
Dim Del As Variant
Del = Array("Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thur", "Fri", "Sat")
MN = DateSerial(Year(Date), Month(Date), 1)
    
    For Each c In Range("Month")
        
        c.Value = (MN - Weekday(MN - 1) + Count)
        
        Count = Count + 1
    Next
    With Range("Month")
       
        .Interior.ColorIndex = 5
        .Find(What:=Date).Select
        ActiveCell.Interior.ColorIndex = 4
        End With
z = -1
Range("Month").Offset(-1).Resize(1, 7).Select
    For Each c In Selection
    z = z + 1
    c.Value = Del(z)
    Next
Range("Month").Columns.AutoFit
Selection.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
Selection.Font.Size = 16
Selection.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
Range("Month").NumberFormat = "m/d/yy"
Range("Month")(1).Select
End Sub

 

[Eric W]

Welcome to the forum.

As you've found, there are thousands of ways to make a calendar, but typically, none of them do exactly what you want!

As far as entering the days of the week, you could just enter "Sunday" in one cell, then select the cell, click on the bottom right corner, and drag it to the right, and Excel will fill in the days for you. You could use a formula, which I've shown below.

Excel 2012

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	12/1/2017		Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
2								1	2
3			3	4	5	6	7	8	9
4			10	11	12	13	14	15	16
5			17	18	19	20	21	22	23
6			24	25	26	27	28	29	30
7			31

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</tbody>

Sheet1​

Worksheet Formulas Cell Formula C1 =TEXT("2017-12-"&COLUMNS($C1:C1)+2,"dddd") <thead> </thead><tbody> </tbody>

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</tbody>

Array Formulas Cell Formula C2:I7 {=IFERROR(DAY(TEXT(A1,"yyyy-mm-")&{2,3,4,5,6,7,8}+{0;7;14;21;28;35}-WEEKDAY(A1)),"")} <thead> </thead><tbody> </tbody> Entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If entered correctly, Excel will surround with curly braces {}. Note: Do not try and enter the {} manually yourself

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Put the formula in C1, then drag to the right. As far as the dates, put the first day of the month you want in A1. Now select C2:I7 (or any other 7X6 range). With the whole range still selected, enter the C2 formula, then confirm it by pressing Control+Shift+Enter, instead of just enter. Now the dates will fill the grid when you change the date in A1. You can format the grid as you like, with gridlines, or fonts, or colors. You could also put individual formulas in the cells if you want, depending on what else you want to do with the calendar.

Let us know if this helps!