

To do this, I simply dragged the rows down to make those cells bigger. Remember those extra rows in between the numbered rows? I expanded those rows to create boxes underneath the numbers. Reformat your calendar if necessary.Įverything is starting to look like a calendar, right? At this stage, I reformatted things to clean up the look of my calendar a little. Note: Make sure to end the month on the right number! For January, that would be the 31st. Depending on the day of the week, you may need to follow this process using the second day of the month so you can click and drag horizontally. Place the number 1 on the box right underneath the first day of the month, then click and drag horizontally. Before this step, I took the time to add color to the days row and changed the font to one I liked a little more.įor the numerical values, we’ll simply identify the first day of the month and click and drag to fill in the rest. Now we're going to fill in the numerical values. Fill in the numbers.Įxcellent! You have your days of the week. Remember, if this doesn't work for you, you can always fill in the days manually. Pressing enter should automatically fill in the rest of the week.

You're going to copy the formula in Sunday's cell by dragging the selector to the end of your row, (A-G), and pressing enter again. Then, press enter and select your first day. Highlight the number 1 in the formula and replace it with: COLUMN(). What this tells Google is that your number will be replaced by a date or time and the format you're using is weekdays. To fill in days of the week, in the cell where you want your first weekday to be, type: =TEXT(1, "DDDD"). Sheets has a function that lets you type in formulas to complete certain actions at once. You can do this manually but I decided to use a formula. Next, fill in the days of the week in each column (A-G). Use a formula to fill in the days of the week. Then, I increased the font size and bolded the month. Here, I also center-aligned my text using the tool next to Merge. You can find this button to the right of the Fill tool. I highlighted seven columns (A-G), and clicked Merge to make that cell span across the entire column.

I selected the text, January 2022, in Column A, Row 1. What's great about Google Sheets is that it automatically recognizes dates, so typing in a month, followed by the year in YYYY format will tell Google that you're going to be working with dates. For this example, I decided to do January 2022, so I filled that into the first cell. Open a new spreadsheet and choose your month. Repeat the process from February to December.ġ.Add design elements to professionalize the look.Use a formula to fill in the days of the week.Open a new spreadsheet and choose your month.
