Calendar Templates for Word and Excel

If you're tasked with creating a calendar in Word to track case deadlines or deposition dates, be sure not to miss that Microsoft has templates available which can generate the range of months that you need. Anyone with an Office 365 account can download the calendar templates available here: https://templates.office.com/

A calendar template for Word such as this version, will add a new tab on the ribbon named, 'Calendar'. You can Select the month and year you need to track deadlines for.

There are a variety of different styles available for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Some template drafts already include a complete calendar for the current year, and others let you specify the date range you need. This calendar template for Excel will let you input any begin date, and then create calendar pages for the 11 subsequent months on separate worksheets.

Shortening Graph Lines for Zero Values

By default, a line graph based on a data range in Excel will show zero values on the graph, instead of breaking the data lines where the zero values appear.

The lines can be changed so there are gaps on the axis where there is no given value. Right click on the graph, and click 'Select Data'. Click on the 'Hidden and Empty Cells' box in the lower left of the dialog box. Choose the option to show empty cells as gaps.

Then remove the zeroes listed in the data range on which the graph is based. The lines in the graph will be correspondingly shortened.

Excel's Camera Tool

Excel has a camera tool that you can activate by going to File . . . Options . . . Customize Ribbon.

Set the menu on the left to 'All Commands' and then scroll down and find the Camera tool. Create a new group on the right and Add the Camera into it.

Select a range of cells and then click on the Camera icon.

When you click on a new sheet an image of the selected area will be added. Clicking on the image will take you back to the original source range.