A calendar in Excel is a visual component that you can add to your spreadsheets to address a particular month. This inward capacity gives an essential calendar design to people that they can alter for their particular requirements. Dominate gives an assortment of schedules from which users can pick, going from a scholarly schedule to a web-based media schedule.

Excel provides the date picker control option, which creates a date drop-down menu in a spreadsheet cell for the 32-bit version of Microsoft products users. The following are some steps you can take to create a calendar in Excel :

STEP 1: Select the “File” menu at the top left corner.

Excel Spreadsheet “File” option

STEP 2: This allows you to select “Options” at the bottom of the menu.

Select File –> options

STEP 3: After selecting the “Options” menu, an excel options window will appear, you can click on the “Customize Ribbon” button.

Excel Options Window

STEP 4: Select “Developer” by checking in the checkbox. The next step is to go to the bottom of your menu and press the “OK” button.

Excel Options Window

STEP 5: Select the “Developer” Ribbon. In the menu below, click the toolbox icon “Insert.” From there, click the bottom right option “More Control.”

Developer Ribbon

STEP 6: Select the “Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control” option. When a shaded background appears behind this option, press the “OK” button. This enters a drop-down calendar in your selected cell.

calendar insertion window