Hint: If you have a lot to type and it won’t fit on one line in the box then just click and drag the top button on the box to make the box bigger and you will see all of your text.

No need to make a whole new colored box each time you add a new activity. To add another box of the same color, but with different information, just copy and paste any box of that color into a new location and re-type the information in the new box. To center your text in the box click on your box then click the alignment tab in the toolbar and choose to center diagonally and vertically. This is important because you will be using shortcuts later to copy and paste and you won’t want to have to change the alignment in every single box individually. You will want to choose your alignment of your text in each box now. Open a new workbook by clicking new and pick any year one month calendar and click create Have your Excel open and we can create your own calendar together. I’m going to walk you thru the whole process of just how easy it is when your working with a template. If you’ve ever opened this program before it can look a little intimidating. It’s a great tool with many home organizing templates for you to customize. It has an online monthly service that gives you access to the whole suite. It comes with the suite “Microsoft Office.” If you don’t have it you can purchase and download it right from the Microsoft website.

ExcelĮxcel is a program that you may already have on your computer.

Let me show you how you can make your very own, custom family calendar in Excel. Actually this would be great for anyone who needs to organize their life on one piece of paper. So when I learned how to make my own calendar in Excel for work I new this would be a great way to organize all of those activities into one easy to read calendar. The idea for the Excel Family Calendar came to me when I was wondering how moms today manage to keep track of all of their kids activities.

How to organize your life with excel