Beyond spreadsheets: Spiffy Excel calendars for 2012

Need a plain-vanilla calendar for your business which shows the year in a glance? Or the kind that your local hardware passes out for free (marketing) at the end of the year?  Or if you're a student, how about one that lets you juggle assignments as the professors keep juggling dates? 

Here are this year's free 2012 Excel calendars.

Designer-Brand (Yours) Business Calendars

• Calendar (any year):   A traditional, year-at-a-glance, simple calendar for tracking months ahead of your key dates and milestones.

• Small business calendar (any year, Mon-Sun):  This one will look like you hired a graphic designer to create a calendar in sync with your other branded communications. It has places to add your logo, contact info, and images and photos of your business.

• Small business calendar (any year, Sun-Sat):  Same as above except the days of the week are ordered from Sunday through Saturday.

Family Photo Op

• Family calendar (any year, Mon-Sun):  Some Excel geek figured out this one. There's an image of a small blackboard (like the magnetic ones you hang on your refrigerator) where you can scribble important dates. As soon as you enter one date, the corresponding date is highlighted on the calendar below it. (If you want to know what's behind the magic--it's called conditional formatting.)

• Family calendar(any year, Sun-Sat): Same as above except the days of the week are organized from Sunday through Saturday.

• Seasonal family calendar (any year, Sun-Sat):  This calendar looks and feels like the regular kind of calendars, the ones with a different photo for each month that you hang in the kitchen. Except this one lets you add your own photos for each month.  It's also color-code by season.

• Seasonal family calendar (any year, Mon-Sun):  Same as above except the days of the week are organized from Monday through Sunday.

Homework Time

• Student weekly planning calendar (any year, Sun-Sat):  Not sure who will like this one more--students or teachers.  It's laid out so you can see assignments in the right column and test dates or a class schedule in the calendar to the left. 

• Student weekly planning calendar (any year, Mon-Sun):  Same as above except the days of the week are organized from Monday through Sunday.

Go Naked!

• Calendar creator (any year): Not you! Us. We made this completely plain calendar so you can dress it up anyway you want.  

Have fun keeping track of your dental appointments!