Using a spreadsheet to create a list of events, meetings, or important dates is a great way to collect all of your information in one place. But when it comes time to share that list with others or use it for scheduling, scanning through spreadsheet rows isn’t as simple as viewing events on a calendar.
Spreadsheets, typically, can’t be easily converted into calendars, and manually transferring dozens or even hundreds of events from one place to another is time consuming and prone to errors. But with Spreadsheet.com’s Calendar views, you can transform any simple event list into a fully-featured interactive calendar in just a few clicks.
Want to create a calendar in an Excel workbook? It’s possible – with 8 steps, almost 200 lines of Visual Basic code, and a macro. And after all of that work, you’re left with a calendar in name only, a specially formatted worksheet that’s devoid of any real calendar functionality.
You can’t do much with this “calendar” in Excel, but maybe you can print it out, pencil in your events, and stick it on a cubicle wall?
Spreadsheet.com offers a better solution. With just a few clicks, you can transform a list of meetings or events into a fully-featured interactive calendar that can be shared with everyone who needs to be kept in the loop.
Most scheduling or event planning workbooks begin with some simple information: a list of event or meeting names, start times, end times, hosts or speakers, and locations. Take a look at our sample workbook below:
With Spreadsheet.com, that’s all the information you need to add a Calendar view to your workbook. From your worksheet, open the Views sidebar and click the + Calendar button at the bottom.
When you create a new Calendar view, Spreadsheet.com will prompt you to select a column with event start dates (and end dates, if applicable). You can also choose how to apply color to each event and the zoom level at which you see your calendar.
It’s that easy.
There isn’t really a Step 2, but now that you have all of your events laid out on a convenient calendar, you don’t really have a good excuse for showing up late to your events anymore. Spreadsheet.com giveth, Spreadsheet.com taketh away.
If you’re planning an event or creating a list of project meetings and milestones, you probably don’t want to keep your calendar to yourself. With Spreadsheet.com’s sharing and collaboration features, it’s easy to share your calendar with everyone who needs it.
Use link sharing to share your calendar with your team or organization, or use public embedding to embed your calendar directly on your event’s website.
And with iCal link sharing, you can share a link to your calendar that others can subscribe to and import the events into their own calendar applications. If you add or change events on your calendar, they’ll be updated automatically in your subscribers’ calendars as well.
Ready to transform your workbooks into fully-featured calendars? Get started today with a template from Spreadsheet.com’s Template Gallery, or start with a blank workbook to begin building your calendar from scratch.