Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can be used as a planner for different purposes. These could include planning for meals, weddings, and annual leaves; monthly, weekly and yearly planning.
For the purpose of tracking your meal, you can use excel sheets to plan ahead. You may enter your favorite meals, their basic ingredients and click a button for the Shopping for the week’s meals.
To plan your wedding, excel sheet may help a lot. You may enter all the accessories and their relative budget and then link them to calculate the cost of each. The list of guests and the events would further specify the costs and the budget. As well as calculating the cost, this planner would help in keeping track of the events and the guests as they arrive and to make sure that everything has been done according to the plan.
The weekly planner can contain all your scheduled meetings and appointments. It can tell your daily schedule and would help in remembering everything. When the time is over you may replace the earlier data with the new data or start a new planner.
Year planner is an exaggerated version of the week planner. It contains everything related to major conferences, seminars, product launching, spending time with family, a friends’ get together etc. it can be a quick reference stuff always in front of your eyes on your laptop screen. Rather than using various templates for this purpose, excel spreadsheets are a lot easier and comfortable to use. Simply put all the required data in a sheet and the rename is according to the month or year and here your planner is ready. Everything is formula based and you can change the year and the data by changing the name of the sheet.
An easy to use calendar planner has also been developed but if you do not want it, you can make the spreadsheets into a calendar planner yourself. All you need is the knowledge of inserting data in the rows and columns. Mostly, people require keeping track of their due payments, incoming events, appointments and meetings etc. rather than noting everything on a diary and carrying it everywhere to check your schedule it is a lot easier to use excel planner. It saves time and also the hassle of searching through the pages.