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

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