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Create a 12 Month Calendar With The Current Day Highlighted in Excel

Create a 12 month formatted calendar on a new tab in Excel with the current day highlighted. This macro creates a nicely formatted 12 month calendar where all days in every month are listed and in date format. This means that you can immediately perform date related functions and formulas off of the dates created from this macro and calendar.

This macro saves you a lot of time if you need to have a calendar display in Excel. This macro is also very easy to change in terms of formatting and this is good if you want to change month heading colors or cell background colors etc.

Where to install the macro: Module

Excel Macro to Create a 12 Month Calendar With The Current Day Highlighted in Excel


					
					Sub CreateCalendar()
Dim lMonth As Long
Dim strMonth As String
Dim rStart As Range
Dim strAddress As String
Dim rCell As Range
Dim lDays As Long
Dim dDate As Date
 
 'Add new sheet and format
 Worksheets.Add
 ActiveWindow.DisplayGridlines = False
 With Cells
 .ColumnWidth = 6#
 .Font.Size = 8
 End With
 
 'Create the Month headings
 For lMonth = 1 To 4
 Select Case lMonth
 Case 1
 strMonth = "January"
 Set rStart = Range("A1")
 Case 2
 strMonth = "April"
 Set rStart = Range("A8")
 Case 3
 strMonth = "July"
 Set rStart = Range("A15")
 Case 4
 strMonth = "October"
 Set rStart = Range("A22")
 End Select
 
 'Merge, AutoFill and align months
 With rStart

    

  .Value = strMonth
 .HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
 .Interior.ColorIndex = 6
 .Font.Bold = True
 With .Range("A1:G1")
 .Merge
 .BorderAround LineStyle:=xlContinuous
 End With
 .Range("A1:G1").AutoFill Destination:=.Range("A1:U1")
 End With
 Next lMonth
 
 'Pass ranges for months
 For lMonth = 1 To 12
 strAddress = Choose(lMonth, "A2:G7", "H2:N7", "O2:U7", _

  "A9:G14", "H9:N14", "O9:U14", _

  "A16:G21", "H16:N21", "O16:U21", _

  "A23:G28", "H23:N28", "O23:U28")
 lDays = 0
 Range(strAddress).BorderAround LineStyle:=xlContinuous
 'Add dates to month range and format
 For Each rCell In Range(strAddress)
 lDays = lDays + 1
 dDate = DateSerial(Year(Date), lMonth, lDays)
 If Month(dDate) = lMonth Then ' It's a valid date
 With rCell
 .Value = dDate
 .NumberFormat = "ddd dd"
 End With
 End If
 Next rCell
 Next lMonth
 
 'add con formatting
 With Range("A1:U28")
 .FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlCellValue, Operator:=xlEqual, Formula1:="=TODAY()"
 .FormatConditions(1).Font.ColorIndex = 2
 .FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 1
 End With
End Sub

How to Install the Macro

Select and copy the text from within the grey box above.

Open the Microsoft Excel file in which you would like the Macro to function.

Press "Alt + F11" - This will open the Visual Basic Editor - Works for all Excel Versions. Or For other ways to get there, Click Here.

On the new window that opens up, go to the left side where the vertical pane is located. Locate your Excel file; it will be called VBAProject (YOUR FILE'S NAME HERE) and click this.

If the Macro goes in a Module, Click Here, otherwise continue to Step 8.
1. Go to the menu at the top of the window and click Insert > Module
2. Another window should have opened within the Visual Basic Editor's window. Within this new window, paste the macro code. Make sure to paste the code underneath the last line of anything else that is in the window.
3. Go to Step 8.

If the Macro goes in the Workbook or ThisWorkbook, Click Here, otherwise continue to Step 8.
1. Directly underneath your excel file called VBAProject(your file's name here), click the Microsoft Excel Objects folder icon to open that drop-down list.
2. Then, at the bottom of the list that appears, double-click the ThisWorkbook text.
3. A new window inside the Visual Basic Editor's window will appear. In this new window, paste the code for the macro. Make sure to paste this code underneath the last line of any other code which is already in the window.
4. Go to Step 8.

If the Macro goes in the Worksheet Code, Click Here, otherwise continue to Step 8.
1. Directly underneath your excel file called VBAProject(your file's name here), click the Microsoft Excel Objects folder icon to open that drop-down list.
2. Within the list that appears you will see every worksheet that is in that excel file. They will be listed as such: Sheet1(NAME OF SHEET HERE) and under that will be Sheet2(NAME OF SHEET HERE). Select the sheet in which you want the macro to run and double-click that sheet.
3. A new window inside the Visual Basic Editor's window will appear. In this new window, paste the code for the macro. Make sure to paste this code underneath the last line of any other code which is already in the window.
4. Repeat steps b and c for every sheet you want the macro to work in. Putting the macro in one sheet will not enable it for any other sheets in the workbook.
5. Go to Step 8.

Close the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor window and save the Excel file. When you close the Visual Basic Editor window, the regular Excel window will not close.

You are now ready to run the macro.

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