A little too fast paced for me but with pauses and rewinding the steps and visual helped me tremendously. Definitely saved to favorites. Watching this in 12/2023 to get a refresher for a new job!
I thought the same thing... I couldn't listen to what she said, process it, AND watch what she was doing and comprehend THAT In such a terribly short amount of time. Stopping, rewinding, rewatching, and sometimes repeating is almost worse because I can't maintain the information in my head for long enough. (OH ADHD, how I love thee! 😂) What you can do, however (even WITHOUT ADHD 😉), is go up to the gear, choose "playback speed", and adjust it accordingly. A number smaller than 1.0 is SLOWER, a number larger than 1.0 is FASTER. (Personally, I can't handle slowing it down any more than 0.75. Voices are obviously affected when speeds change. If it's too slow, they start to sound as if they are in the process of falling asleep... If it's too slow, they start to sound as if they are additional/replacement members of the Alvin and the Chipmunks band! 👉😖👈) Whether you go faster or slower, don't forget to turn it back to normal after you are finished watching that video/videos by that creator!!! 😅😅😅
What a detailed and easy-to-follow tutorial! Exactly what i needed, thanks!! Because im making this in late October, the dates take up quite a bit of space when initially entering them. My last day extends over on to the next whole page. I tried changing the page orientation and it all fits in one when on landscape, which is great. However, do you know how i could fit it all in on a portrait page? Thanks, keep up the good work!
Hi, Aadam. You can set this in the Page Setup options. On the Page tab, in the Scaling section, select Fit to and set it to 1 page wide by 1 page tall. Just make sure to check the Print Preview to make sure it's not so small you can't ready it. You could also apply Wrap Text to the dates so you can make the columns smaller. You'll find this in the Home tab, in the Alignment section. Thanks! 🙂
The tutorial was really really helpful and easy to follow. Thank you so much! And your voice is really pleasing to the ears. So, really liked the video!
That’s excellent, Ali! There are so so many things you can do with Excel once you get comfortable with it. I’m so happy my tutorial helped you, at least a little bit, in learning how to use it 🙂
Kudos for the video content! Apologies for butting in, I would love your thoughts. Have you considered - Weydaniel Organized Dominator (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a good exclusive guide for getting 7000 plus project management and business templates without the headache. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my mate got cool success with it.
Great work! What I would find very useful is an option to schedule a meeting in between two time slots. For example: Lets assume I have a meeting from 9:45-10:15. Is there also a method to generate a table with flexible times? Alternatively I guess I could increase the granularity for the timeslots from 30 min to 15 min.
Wow! Thanks much!!! I am gonna try this for my work today itself!!!! Quick question what if I want to have both the drop down option and and option to type notes in cells when needed. ( appointment that isn't on the drop down option to be typed ) how may i do that please, let me know soon as I really need to get this working! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for this video, it has been extremely helpful and easy to follow, the only issue I am having is trying to make my timetable blank areas link with my activities list, every time I do it it says there is an error because excel would recognise it as a formula, which I want, but then it won't let me do it? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong since I have followed your tutorial and you did not have the same issue
Thank you for providing this information! I'm new to your channel. I'm working on a work bid for 3 agents, and once the agents choose their lines, I would love a way to set up an array (?) so for the duration of that bid we could have a calendar that is auto filled. Is this possible? I'm not sure about my terminology. Thank you!
Hello! This was so helpful. Thank you!! I have one question though. Some meetings that are more than 30 minutes. How to I add them to the the sheet and extend for more than 30 minutes?
Hi, La Toya. In my opinion, the best option is to select the same meeting for an additional time slot. If you don't convert the week to a Table format (like we did in the tutorial), you can merge the cells after you select a meeting type, but then that starts to get clunky if you want to make a copy of it to reuse in a future week. You'd need to remember to unmerge any merged cells.
Thank you so much for your hard work, this is great content. I do have a question though, how can we merge cells? I noticed after creating a table, that button is dimmed and I don't know how to undo that.
Hi YAcosta soutions, thanks for the video really helpful. Could you please inform us on a way to quickly add up the time spent on each "separate activities" each day on a sperate table? I am trying to tally the length of time spent on each separate activities at the end of each week. Thanks!
To anyone having trouble or getting an error with Data Evaluation in the Settings tab, instead of putting "=Activities", after clicking "Allow: List", I just clicked on the Activities tab (the one near your weekly schedule name), and I highlighted the whole activities chart and it automatically puts the list in the Source box. Hope this helps!
How does the weekly calendar repeat itself for the whole calendar year. Meaning, I've followed step by step but it only covered 1 week in the month how do I repeat it so if I wanna book in August the calendar will go that far
Could you show how to save a new item to the “activities list”. It doesn’t automatically add to the values saved to auto populate. Or do we have to save it as a new table every time? Thanks
Can you show us how we could use this method through the year and create a dashboard with graphs that would show time spent on activities as the year goes on? I’m trying to make a planner like this that would allow for tracking things over time. Like time spent on the job & returns or time spent exercising and body weight.
Hey! Thank you for this video. Pretty much self-explanatory. Can u tell how to copy same format for next weeks?. I mean how to copy paste the table on horizontal and vertical pages next to this one.
Hi, Tarun. You can either use copy and paste to copy this next to the original on the same sheet or make a copy of the sheet. To make a copy of the sheet, place your cursor on its tab, right-click and select Move or Copy. Then check off the option for “Make a Copy” and click OK. Either way, you'll need to update the dates. You can then use Format Painter to copy the Conditional Format to your new copy. To use Format Painter, select the entire original week, click Format Painter from your Home tab's Clipboard section, then select your new copy. The formatting, including the Conditional Format, will now be copied over. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have more questions.
Thanks for the instructions! I am having some trouble in the "Data Validation" part. When I input "=Activities" for the Source, I get an error message. Instead I have to highlight the items in my activities list in order for the function to work. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, were you able to fix it?
Hiiiii... Thank you for the Tutorial. I still have trouble when I get into the validation. After the validation staff is done what I got on the schedule list is only *Activities. So, what should I do?
I think you forgot to put the '=' sign in the source section for data validation. Instead of "Activities", it should be "=Activities". When you highlight all the necessary blocks and press data validation, make sure you choose "Allow: list" and "Source: =Activities" in the validation criteria. Goodluck!
Hi, Refugio Rivas. See if this formula helps you: =(COUNT($A3:$A23)-COUNTBLANK(B3:B23))*"0:30" Here's how this formula works: -The first part counts the cells in range A3:A23 that contain a value. Where A3:A23 refers to the cells in the column that contains the time labels. -It then subtracts any blank cells found in cells B3:B23 (with this range being all the time slots for the first day). If your first day is a Monday, then Tuesday would be C3:C23, etc. And the cells with no activities would be the blank ones. -It then multiplies the difference by "0:30". This represents 30 minutes for each time slot. If each is 15 minutes, then you would multiply by "0:15", and so on. Last, you should apply custom formatting to the cell with the result. It would look like this: [h]:mm. I have a tutorial on time formatting that can help you understand this formatting. If you're interested, you can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/gmvTMACw420/v-deo.html Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks!
Hello and thank you for your tutorial! I'm making a weekly schedule for a restaurant so there are some days where I need to schedule two activities for one person. Is there a way to select more than one activity in a column?
Hi, Ryan. I'm trying to think of ways you can do this, but, first, what does your year calendar that you're linking to look like and how do you want it to look like? For example, is it laid out with the months and the dates (with no room for notes?). Where you're looking to create links back to the weekly calendar? Or are you looking to populate the weekly calendar activities into the day in the year calendar (I kind of think this could end up looking overwhelming)? Or do you have a different layout? Thanks
Thank you for the tutorial. Is there a way to make an activity cover a longer time block? Or would the only way be to put that activity in every thirty minute time block to represent that it is taking several hours? Thanks again!
Hi, Jacob. Once you've entered the meeting in a cell, you could drag it down to other cells. This way you wouldn't have to select it for each half-hour block you may need. Hope this helps and thank you.
@@YAcostaSolutions Hi, I just finished preparing a schedule, is there any way to make it so that an activity that takes place over a longer period doesn't show as repeated in each block after dragging it down? Like merging cells so that the time is blocked off but the activity is just listed once?
Hi, is there any way to make it so that an activity that takes place over a longer period doesn't show as repeated in each block after dragging it down? And also Display the time in the text?
Hi, Sumaya and thank you! Adding new weeks should not affect the formatting. You can extend the calendar to the right by adding new columns for future days or you can copy the whole tab to create a new one (on the tab at the bottom of the sheet, right-click and select "Move or Copy" and check off "Create a Copy"). You can insert a formula on the first date that would reference the last day of the sheet for the prior week and add 1. Or you can just type in the new date. On the activities / meetings area, you can select them all by highlighting them and pressing Delete on your keyboard to clear them out. This will not affect the formatting for any new meetings. I hope this helps! 🙂
Also, I want to have a sheet with list of activities with corresponding dates and times. And I want my calendar to be auto populated based on my entries in other sheets. Do you think you can help me with this?
Hi. Make sure you're that the name you're referencing in the Source section is the same name that you assigned to your list of activities. If it continues to give you troubles, you could type the = sign and, with your cursor, select the range of cells you want to use for the drop down list. As long as the range is formatted as a Table, it will still auto update with any new activities you add later. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you need more help. And thank you.
I want to make a once a week activity every Monday say 1700 hrs to take account of school holidays and have a list of different students doing a presentation by one student each of these Mondays. How can I do that? Please help and advise.
"A named range you specified cannot be found" is the error message I get when I'm in data validation and I write "= activities" in the source box. How do I fix this?
Hi, thanks for the video!😁 so I’ve got a small issue. Whenever I try entering an activity using the drop down menu it auto fills, how do I get the option to choose an activity instead of it auto filling? I’m following this using Excel 2013 if that helps. Thanks once again for the great video❤️
Hi, Wanda. Can you double-check your list settings in Data Validation? Make sure that "In-cell dropdown" is selected? Otherwise, it may be autofilling if other items in the same column start with the same letter(s). Once you've selected a few items with different labels, that should stop. Let me know if you still have troubles with this. Thanks!
My list wouldn't show up. Only the title. Is it because my description was to long to fit in one column? Or did I do something wrong, I am doing an assignment for school. I need to use Excel to make a schedule for a doctor.
hi, is there a way to create a new sheet for the next week but with correct dates and the table empty, without having to go through all the steps again?
I cant get it to work, neither in English or Swedish, it won't add the next hour, it just moves the inputted time / day / to the next cell. Your guide is really good, but what is wrong with myExcel (365).
Hi, SJ. I used Autofill to fill in the times. Autofill / AutoComplete works by looking for a pattern in your data and then filling in the rest when you drag down or over. For example, type 8:00 AM in one cell, then 8:30 AM in the cell below it. Select the 2 cells and drag down. Excel should identify the pattern and fill in 1/2 hour intervals. If you want to do hour intervals, you would type 8:00 AM, then 9:00 AM. If this doesn't work for you, go to your File / Options / under "Advanced" / look for the "Editing" section. Make sure that "Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop" is selected. Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have problems. Thanks
when i choose activities as a list, and go to Error alert, i get an error massage saying "the list source must be a delimited list, or a reference to single row or column", what can i do?
Hi, Toqa. Is your list of activities in just 1 column or row? Typically this error happens if your list spans multiple columns. You might want to double-check what cells make up your Defined Name. It could be you just accidentally dragged too far when you assigned it a name. You can edit it by going to your Formulas tab, in the Defined Names section you should see a Name Manager button. Please let me know if you need additional help. Thanks
@@YAcostaSolutions It did not work for me, neither did the date headings, I kept getting a formula error and had to input the dates manually. The list just says =STUDENTS (I switched out activities for students because this is my teaching schedule). So either I have a different version of Excel than you or I am missing something.
Hi, MD128. Unfortunately, I don’t have a version of this available for Macs. But thanks for asking. We do need to venture into Excel for Macs topics. But sorry we can’t help you more at the moment.
After going to Data Evaluation and adding =Activities, Excel would not allow me to click on Error Alert with a box coming up stating, "A named range you specified cannot be found." I was unable to specify a range. Help.
Hi, Sanour! Yes, it's possible to make a jpg or pdf of it, except it won't be interactive. To create a jpg you'd need to copy it as a picture, paste it in another application and then you'll be able to save it as a jpg or png. Take a look: ua-cam.com/video/9KIW9PnYETs/v-deo.html There are a few ways to save it as a pdf. You can do Save As and select pdf or select Export from the Options menu. This tutorial goes through the options: ua-cam.com/video/qCV7j12KIF4/v-deo.html Thanks 🙂
Hi. You could consider locking the cells that contain the recurring meeting, but then when you delete the meetings to begin a new week, you'd have to make sure to not select the locked cells when you delete the others - otherwise Excel gets fussy. I have a tutorial on protecting cells that might help: ua-cam.com/video/gktTPxYKhBs/v-deo.html But I wonder if it's easier to not delete it for future weeks? You could format it to be a specific color so that it stands out for you. Or use all caps and bold it. Just so it's easier to spot when you're clearing out the area to create a new week. Let me know if neither of these solutions work for you and we can brainstorm something else. Thanks!
A little too fast paced for me but with pauses and rewinding the steps and visual helped me tremendously. Definitely saved to favorites. Watching this in 12/2023 to get a refresher for a new job!
I hope you have great success in your new job! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
I thought the same thing... I couldn't listen to what she said, process it, AND watch what she was doing and comprehend THAT In such a terribly short amount of time. Stopping, rewinding, rewatching, and sometimes repeating is almost worse because I can't maintain the information in my head for long enough. (OH ADHD, how I love thee! 😂)
What you can do, however (even WITHOUT ADHD 😉), is go up to the gear, choose "playback speed", and adjust it accordingly. A number smaller than 1.0 is SLOWER, a number larger than 1.0 is FASTER.
(Personally, I can't handle slowing it down any more than 0.75. Voices are obviously affected when speeds change. If it's too slow, they start to sound as if they are in the process of falling asleep... If it's too slow, they start to sound as if they are additional/replacement members of the Alvin and the Chipmunks band! 👉😖👈)
Whether you go faster or slower, don't forget to turn it back to normal after you are finished watching that video/videos by that creator!!! 😅😅😅
This tutorial was absolutely amazing! So concise and easy to follow! I appreciate it greatly :)
That’s awesome, Kelly! I’m so happy you liked this 🙂
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Thank you so much 🙂 I'm happy this was useful for you.
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Thank you, James. I really appreciate your feedback. I’m glad you liked this 🙂
Great. Now I know more about scheduling shifts and thus I can work more efficiently, effectively, and maximize my income.
That’s excellent, Ryan! I’m so happy this helped you so much 🙂
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Thank you so much, Harshad! I really appreciate the compliment 🙂
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Thank you, Samuelu. That’s very kind of you 🙂 I’m glad you liked this tutorial.
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What a detailed and easy-to-follow tutorial! Exactly what i needed, thanks!! Because im making this in late October, the dates take up quite a bit of space when initially entering them. My last day extends over on to the next whole page. I tried changing the page orientation and it all fits in one when on landscape, which is great. However, do you know how i could fit it all in on a portrait page? Thanks, keep up the good work!
Hi, Aadam. You can set this in the Page Setup options. On the Page tab, in the Scaling section, select Fit to and set it to 1 page wide by 1 page tall.
Just make sure to check the Print Preview to make sure it's not so small you can't ready it.
You could also apply Wrap Text to the dates so you can make the columns smaller. You'll find this in the Home tab, in the Alignment section.
Thanks! 🙂
The tutorial was really really helpful and easy to follow. Thank you so much! And your voice is really pleasing to the ears. So, really liked the video!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the sweet feedback 🙂
Thank you very much, I am just learning and you make it look easy😊
That’s excellent, Ali! There are so so many things you can do with Excel once you get comfortable with it. I’m so happy my tutorial helped you, at least a little bit, in learning how to use it 🙂
I am only in middle school. Everyone was saying make schedule but I didnt know how, This was Very helpfull
Thank you so much for this tutorial, its great and I followed along and it all worked well :) thank you!
That's great, Monica! I'm so happy this was useful for you 🙂
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Thank you so much YAcosta Solutions, this really helps a lot, much appreciated, bless you!
Thanks, Rafie! I’m excited this helped you out 🙂
Thank you so much for this video!
You're explanation is very concise and goes right to the point😃
Thank you, Niharika Jagdish. That’s sweet of you to comment 🙂 Happy this was helpful for you!
Kudos for the video content! Apologies for butting in, I would love your thoughts. Have you considered - Weydaniel Organized Dominator (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a good exclusive guide for getting 7000 plus project management and business templates without the headache. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my mate got cool success with it.
very easy to follow! Thank you!
Thanks, Veronica. I’m happy you liked this 🙂
Wow, life changing. Thank you!
That's great! I'm so glad this was useful for you 🙂
Thanks for your video. I want to create a weekly planner with different start and end times? Can you please explain how to do this?
Thank you for the tutorial, super helpful!
Thank you 🙂 Glad it was helpful!
Great work! What I would find very useful is an option to schedule a meeting in between two time slots. For example: Lets assume I have a meeting from 9:45-10:15. Is there also a method to generate a table with flexible times? Alternatively I guess I could increase the granularity for the timeslots from 30 min to 15 min.
Thank you your video helped a lot.
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What kind feedback! Thanks so much. I’m happy this helped you 🙂
Thanks for detailed explanation. May I know where did you click at 1:32 to change the squares to date.
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Wow! Thanks much!!! I am gonna try this for my work today itself!!!! Quick question what if I want to have both the drop down option and and option to type notes in cells when needed. ( appointment that isn't on the drop down option to be typed ) how may i do that please, let me know soon as I really need to get this working! THANK YOU!!!
awesome tutorial thanks!
Thanks so much! I’m happy you liked this 🙂
Thank you for this video, it has been extremely helpful and easy to follow, the only issue I am having is trying to make my timetable blank areas link with my activities list, every time I do it it says there is an error because excel would recognise it as a formula, which I want, but then it won't let me do it? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong since I have followed your tutorial and you did not have the same issue
Hi, looks like you've got this solved in a different comment. Thanks so much for stopping by and watching 🙂
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Thanks! Great vid
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much 🙂
Thank you for this! Assuming I won't be able to merge cells in this for activities that may take more than a single time slot?
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Thanks so much, Rajan! I’m happy you liked this 🙂
Thank you for providing this information! I'm new to your channel. I'm working on a work bid for 3 agents, and once the agents choose their lines, I would love a way to set up an array (?) so for the duration of that bid we could have a calendar that is auto filled. Is this possible? I'm not sure about my terminology. Thank you!
Hello! This was so helpful. Thank you!! I have one question though. Some meetings that are more than 30 minutes. How to I add them to the the sheet and extend for more than 30 minutes?
Hi, La Toya. In my opinion, the best option is to select the same meeting for an additional time slot. If you don't convert the week to a Table format (like we did in the tutorial), you can merge the cells after you select a meeting type, but then that starts to get clunky if you want to make a copy of it to reuse in a future week. You'd need to remember to unmerge any merged cells.
Hi, How do I select multiple cells and pick one of the activities for all cells?
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Thank you so much for your hard work, this is great content. I do have a question though, how can we merge cells? I noticed after creating a table, that button is dimmed and I don't know how to undo that.
So helpful
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Thank you! It's very helpful. Is it possible to merge some cells?
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Glad you think so, Ajima! Thanks so much 🙂
Hi YAcosta soutions, thanks for the video really helpful.
Could you please inform us on a way to quickly add up the time spent on each "separate activities" each day on a sperate table?
I am trying to tally the length of time spent on each separate activities at the end of each week. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for liking this 🙂
To anyone having trouble or getting an error with Data Evaluation in the Settings tab, instead of putting "=Activities", after clicking "Allow: List", I just clicked on the Activities tab (the one near your weekly schedule name), and I highlighted the whole activities chart and it automatically puts the list in the Source box. Hope this helps!
Great tip! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Omg thank you much, this tip saved my life!
Thank you!!
Thank you for the tip, unfortunately I still don't understand and I cannot seem to make it work. Can you please break it down? Sorry :-( Thank you
i loved your vid but im looking for more.. how can i stick aay 8 months worth of learning into a three month calendar and track my progress
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching 🙂 I’m happy you liked this!
How does the weekly calendar repeat itself for the whole calendar year. Meaning, I've followed step by step but it only covered 1 week in the month how do I repeat it so if I wanna book in August the calendar will go that far
Thanks so much!
Thanks! Happy this helped you 🙂
Could you show how to save a new item to the “activities list”. It doesn’t automatically add to the values saved to auto populate. Or do we have to save it as a new table every time? Thanks
Appreciated very useful!
Thanks, glorydoctor qutub! I’m happy this was useful to you 🙂
Can you show us how we could use this method through the year and create a dashboard with graphs that would show time spent on activities as the year goes on? I’m trying to make a planner like this that would allow for tracking things over time. Like time spent on the job & returns or time spent exercising and body weight.
Hey! Thank you for this video. Pretty much self-explanatory. Can u tell how to copy same format for next weeks?. I mean how to copy paste the table on horizontal and vertical pages next to this one.
Hi, Tarun. You can either use copy and paste to copy this next to the original on the same sheet or make a copy of the sheet.
To make a copy of the sheet, place your cursor on its tab, right-click and select Move or Copy. Then check off the option for “Make a Copy” and click OK.
Either way, you'll need to update the dates. You can then use Format Painter to copy the Conditional Format to your new copy.
To use Format Painter, select the entire original week, click Format Painter from your Home tab's Clipboard section, then select your new copy. The formatting, including the Conditional Format, will now be copied over.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have more questions.
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Awww. Thanks, Alan! I'm happy this helped you 😊
Thanks for the instructions! I am having some trouble in the "Data Validation" part. When I input "=Activities" for the Source, I get an error message. Instead I have to highlight the items in my activities list in order for the function to work. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, were you able to fix it?
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Awesome! Glad this helped 🙂
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Thank you, Aiman! I'm happy you liked this 🙂
hi is there a way to add multiple activities to one column?
Hiiiii... Thank you for the Tutorial. I still have trouble when I get into the validation. After the validation staff is done what I got on the schedule list is only *Activities. So, what should I do?
I think you forgot to put the '=' sign in the source section for data validation. Instead of "Activities", it should be "=Activities". When you highlight all the necessary blocks and press data validation, make sure you choose "Allow: list" and "Source: =Activities" in the validation criteria. Goodluck!
THANKS ALOT
Thank you 🙂
Is there a way go quickly add up the time spent on the "activities" each day? -Thanks!
Hi, Refugio Rivas. See if this formula helps you:
=(COUNT($A3:$A23)-COUNTBLANK(B3:B23))*"0:30"
Here's how this formula works:
-The first part counts the cells in range A3:A23 that contain a value. Where A3:A23 refers to the cells in the column that contains the time labels.
-It then subtracts any blank cells found in cells B3:B23 (with this range being all the time slots for the first day). If your first day is a Monday, then Tuesday would be C3:C23, etc. And the cells with no activities would be the blank ones.
-It then multiplies the difference by "0:30". This represents 30 minutes for each time slot. If each is 15 minutes, then you would multiply by "0:15", and so on.
Last, you should apply custom formatting to the cell with the result. It would look like this:
[h]:mm.
I have a tutorial on time formatting that can help you understand this formatting. If you're interested, you can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/gmvTMACw420/v-deo.html
Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks!
Hello and thank you for your tutorial! I'm making a weekly schedule for a restaurant so there are some days where I need to schedule two activities for one person. Is there a way to select more than one activity in a column?
Thank you!!
Thank you!! I'm happy you liked this 🙂
Thank you so much I just made this!
Is there a way to link this to a yearly calendar?
Hi, Ryan. I'm trying to think of ways you can do this, but, first, what does your year calendar that you're linking to look like and how do you want it to look like? For example, is it laid out with the months and the dates (with no room for notes?). Where you're looking to create links back to the weekly calendar? Or are you looking to populate the weekly calendar activities into the day in the year calendar (I kind of think this could end up looking overwhelming)? Or do you have a different layout? Thanks
Thank you for the tutorial. Is there a way to make an activity cover a longer time block? Or would the only way be to put that activity in every thirty minute time block to represent that it is taking several hours? Thanks again!
Hi, Jacob. Once you've entered the meeting in a cell, you could drag it down to other cells. This way you wouldn't have to select it for each half-hour block you may need. Hope this helps and thank you.
@@YAcostaSolutions Hi, I just finished preparing a schedule, is there any way to make it so that an activity that takes place over a longer period doesn't show as repeated in each block after dragging it down? Like merging cells so that the time is blocked off but the activity is just listed once?
Hi, is there any way to make it so that an activity that takes place over a longer period doesn't show as repeated in each block after dragging it down? And also Display the time in the text?
Thank you for the explanation! Is there a way to add new weeks without ruining the formatting?
Hi, Sumaya and thank you!
Adding new weeks should not affect the formatting. You can extend the calendar to the right by adding new columns for future days or you can copy the whole tab to create a new one (on the tab at the bottom of the sheet, right-click and select "Move or Copy" and check off "Create a Copy"). You can insert a formula on the first date that would reference the last day of the sheet for the prior week and add 1. Or you can just type in the new date.
On the activities / meetings area, you can select them all by highlighting them and pressing Delete on your keyboard to clear them out. This will not affect the formatting for any new meetings.
I hope this helps! 🙂
Also, I want to have a sheet with list of activities with corresponding dates and times. And I want my calendar to be auto populated based on my entries in other sheets. Do you think you can help me with this?
When i enter "=activies" In the "source:" section of data validation it notifies me that the formula i typed contains an error... What to do :((
Hi. Make sure you're that the name you're referencing in the Source section is the same name that you assigned to your list of activities.
If it continues to give you troubles, you could type the = sign and, with your cursor, select the range of cells you want to use for the drop down list. As long as the range is formatted as a Table, it will still auto update with any new activities you add later.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you need more help. And thank you.
@@YAcostaSolutions thankyouuu 💓
I want to make a once a week activity every Monday say 1700 hrs to take account of school holidays and have a list of different students doing a presentation by one student each of these Mondays. How can I do that? Please help and advise.
"A named range you specified cannot be found" is the error message I get when I'm in data validation and I write "= activities" in the source box.
How do I fix this?
Hi, thanks for the video!😁 so I’ve got a small issue. Whenever I try entering an activity using the drop down menu it auto fills, how do I get the option to choose an activity instead of it auto filling? I’m following this using Excel 2013 if that helps. Thanks once again for the great video❤️
Hi, Wanda. Can you double-check your list settings in Data Validation? Make sure that "In-cell dropdown" is selected? Otherwise, it may be autofilling if other items in the same column start with the same letter(s). Once you've selected a few items with different labels, that should stop. Let me know if you still have troubles with this. Thanks!
@@YAcostaSolutions Hi, thanks for the advice. Everything is sorted now😁❤️
Awesome! Great work! 🏆
Can we do this in Google sheets? But have Google scripts involved?
My list wouldn't show up. Only the title. Is it because my description was to long to fit in one column? Or did I do something wrong, I am doing an assignment for school. I need to use Excel to make a schedule for a doctor.
What if you have a 3 hour class, let's say from 12 till 3, how do you merge the activities in one timeframe?
After creating everything how to extend it horizontally!!
hi, is there a way to create a new sheet for the next week but with correct dates and the table empty, without having to go through all the steps again?
the time won't drag down in half hour interval insead it is coming in 1 hr interval while dragging down for me ?
I cant get it to work, neither in English or Swedish, it won't add the next hour, it just moves the inputted time / day / to the next cell. Your guide is really good, but what is wrong with myExcel (365).
How did you set Excel to automatically insert the times after 9:00 AM?
Hi, SJ. I used Autofill to fill in the times. Autofill / AutoComplete works by looking for a pattern in your data and then filling in the rest when you drag down or over.
For example, type 8:00 AM in one cell, then 8:30 AM in the cell below it. Select the 2 cells and drag down. Excel should identify the pattern and fill in 1/2 hour intervals. If you want to do hour intervals, you would type 8:00 AM, then 9:00 AM.
If this doesn't work for you, go to your File / Options / under "Advanced" / look for the "Editing" section. Make sure that "Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop" is selected.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have problems. Thanks
@@YAcostaSolutions thanks so much! That was an incredibly helpful description of what to do. Appreciate you taking the time to write it all out for me
Happy to help 🙂
when i choose activities as a list, and go to Error alert, i get an error massage saying "the list source must be a delimited list, or a reference to single row or column", what can i do?
Hi, Toqa. Is your list of activities in just 1 column or row? Typically this error happens if your list spans multiple columns. You might want to double-check what cells make up your Defined Name. It could be you just accidentally dragged too far when you assigned it a name. You can edit it by going to your Formulas tab, in the Defined Names section you should see a Name Manager button. Please let me know if you need additional help. Thanks
@@YAcostaSolutions It did not work for me, neither did the date headings, I kept getting a formula error and had to input the dates manually. The list just says =STUDENTS (I switched out activities for students because this is my teaching schedule). So either I have a different version of Excel than you or I am missing something.
YAcosta Solutions Is this tutorial available for mac users?
Hi, MD128. Unfortunately, I don’t have a version of this available for Macs. But thanks for asking. We do need to venture into Excel for Macs topics. But sorry we can’t help you more at the moment.
okay thanks.
at 1:30 you somehow change the dates from hashtags into actual dates how do you do that?
try increasing the column width .
After going to Data Evaluation and adding =Activities, Excel would not allow me to click on Error Alert with a box coming up stating, "A named range you specified cannot be found." I was unable to specify a range. Help.
Can i make jpg or pdf format of it? it will be more useful 😊
Hi, Sanour! Yes, it's possible to make a jpg or pdf of it, except it won't be interactive.
To create a jpg you'd need to copy it as a picture, paste it in another application and then you'll be able to save it as a jpg or png. Take a look: ua-cam.com/video/9KIW9PnYETs/v-deo.html
There are a few ways to save it as a pdf. You can do Save As and select pdf or select Export from the Options menu. This tutorial goes through the options: ua-cam.com/video/qCV7j12KIF4/v-deo.html
Thanks 🙂
@@YAcostaSolutions Thank you so very much. you are always helpful ☺ waiting for your next video ❤
Still helpful in 2020
Thanks, Leix 🙂 Happy this helped you!
Is there a way to make an activity reoccurring every week?
Hi. You could consider locking the cells that contain the recurring meeting, but then when you delete the meetings to begin a new week, you'd have to make sure to not select the locked cells when you delete the others - otherwise Excel gets fussy. I have a tutorial on protecting cells that might help: ua-cam.com/video/gktTPxYKhBs/v-deo.html
But I wonder if it's easier to not delete it for future weeks? You could format it to be a specific color so that it stands out for you. Or use all caps and bold it. Just so it's easier to spot when you're clearing out the area to create a new week.
Let me know if neither of these solutions work for you and we can brainstorm something else. Thanks!