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Gantt Chart Template for Excel

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:11:35 +0000

This is a Gantt Chart template for excel. Comparing with other template for excel, this one is created with a simplicity approach. Some people has difficulties to create a project management plan because of the complexity of the software they have to use or the software has too many unnecessary function that confuse them. And with excel as their primary spreadsheet software they have to use for their tasks, creating Gantt Chart from the scratch will also give them some headache. The headache is caused by the needs of tidy up the chart to be easy to read and being understand by people who use it.

Created with simple function without any excel macros, this template should be the answer for you or those people who have some difficulties on tidy up the chart in excel or for those who don’t want to spend extra time to tidy it up. Just open the Gantt Chart template in Excel, type related date and information, set some guidance parameter and you are done.

There are two models available, dailyview and weekview model. Dailyview model should be suitable for short period project where weekview model is more suitable for project that has more than 3 month period. There are some features disabled in free version, even though the free version is enough to fulfill your basic project plan.

You can download the weekview model below. It needs Microsoft 2007/2010 to make all the function running well.

And, you can read further instruction on how to use this template here.

Euro 2012 Football Tournament Schedule and Scoresheet

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:46:37 +0000

Within 2 months, the biggest football tournament in Europe, which held every four years, will start in Ukraine and Poland. 16 countries will compete to become the best football team in Europe within 8 June – 1 July 2012 period. Those sixteen finalists are: Croatia,Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland(Co-host), Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Russia, Spain(Defending Champion), Sweden, Ukraine (Co-host). Twelve of those are participated at the previous tournament in 2008. Two team, England and Denmark, were participated in 2004. Republic of Ireland is return after an absence of 24 years. Ukraine make their debut as an independent nation, having previously participated as part of the Soviet Union. All team are divided into 4 groups where each countries will meet once and the winner and runner up of each groups will advance into knock out phase.

The UEFA applied the same tie breaker rule when the group winner and runner up are sharing the same points. The tie breaker rule is as quoted from their document :

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied, in the order given; to determine the rankings:
a) higher number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question;
b) superior goal difference in the matches among the teams in question (if more
than two teams finish equal on points);
c) higher number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question (if
more than two teams finish equal on points);
d) superior goal difference in all the group matches;
e) higher number of goals scored in all the group matches;
f) position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system (see Annex I, paragraph 1.2.2);
g) fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament);
h) drawing of lots.

If two teams which have the same number of points, the same number of goals scored and conceded play their last group match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, the ranking of the two teams in question is determined by kicks from the penalty mark (Article 16), provided no other teams within the group have the same number of points on completion of all group matches. Should more than two teams have the same number of points, the criteria listed under paragraph 8.07 apply.

If you want to play with your prediction, or to monitor your favorite team matches offline, you can download this Euro 2012 Match Schedule and Scoresheet. There are 41 languages and timezone that you can select as your worksheet preference. For more information about the template and other model, you can visit the author site here.

Top 5 Excel Yearly Calendar

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:37:29 +0000

Why I call these calendars are top 5 excel yearly calendars ? Because this is how yearly calendar should be made in excel. From my point of view, if you want to create a yearly calendar using Microsoft Excel, it should be:
1. Easy to customize. It means I or other people who use it can adjust layout, change color, font using excel menu easely.
2. Printed in one page with 12 months layout
3. Generated using excel formula. It means all dates are generated by excel formula, not by typing it manually.
4. Without Macros. I don’t think there is a need to use macro to build this spreadsheet. I found some yearly calendar created using macros and the problems are the spreadsheets only can be used in some version of Microsoft Excel. And this is horrible. How can you use the yearly calendar if the version of Microsoft Excel keep changing and the macro function is not compatible between its version ?
5. Changed by only changing the year. It means it can be used yearly just by typing or selecting targeted year.

And here are the top five based on those point of view :

1. Excel Calendar

This one have holiday and event setting, but if you want to print without detail information about those holiday and event, just clear the print area and set the new print area.

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2. Yearly Calendar

This calendar has all those specification above. I like the lay out.

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3. Yearly Calendar with Holidays

This is the same yearly calendar with number 3 but with holiday information that can be customized.

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15 Useful Wedding Spreadsheets

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:33:04 +0000

Will you marry me ? Yes….. And then what next? The wedding… I don’t know whether you have thought about the wedding before you proposed or accepted to get married, but for many people to plan a wedding can be the hardest thing to do, because it involves many things, even if you plan to just have a simple wedding.

Finding the good time and place, organizing the people, are parts of wedding preparation. You can simplify all the preparation by hiring the Wedding Event Organizer to do all the things for your wedding, but still you have to make sure that the organizer will deliver the event as expected and work within your budget.

But, you don’t have worry too much… In this internet era, there are any kind of wedding information available in internet, all you have to do just google it. And if you need some spreadsheets to help you on your wedding preparation, I have filtered some good spreadsheets for you.

Wedding preparation basically just consists of two things, planner and budget, and that’s what I found in internet when I was searching for wedding spreadsheets. I have filtered those spreadsheets into 15 spreadsheets which could give you brief description about wedding preparation. Each spreadsheets have different approach on planning and budgeting, so you can choose the suitable one for you or customize the spreadsheet according to your need. Since all spreadsheets will complement each other, I think there will no item can be missed after you read all the spreadsheets for your wedding preparation.

Wedding Budget

Budget is something to design in the beginning, so all preparation will follow your expenses that you can afford. And these are budget spreadsheets that you might consider for your references.

1. Wedding Worksheet

To start using the spreadsheet, put your total desired budget in corresponding column and put actual expenses next to the preparation item. This is the simple way of budgeting.

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2. Budget Tracker

I recommend this one to be used for your budget purposes. It is very nicely created, and if you can visit the creator site here to have more information regarding wedding preparation.

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3. Wedding Budget Calculator

Instead of the budget, this spreadsheet also give you column for price or offering comparison on each preparation item.

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4. Wedding Budget

This one has budget percentage guidance of each item category

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5. Wed Budget

In this spreadsheet, there is column to separate budget responsibility between bride and groom.

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6. Common Wedding Budget

I found more then 20 spreadsheets with the same style with this one, where the different is only on the title. I don’t know which one is the original one, so I just pick one that come from Microsoft.

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15 Free Personal Budget Spreadsheet

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:57:41 +0000

There are plenty of personal or household budget spreadsheets available in internet which is free to download. I have downloaded more than 30 spreadsheets just to find 1 spreadsheet that can accommodate all my need on creating and controlling my personal budget and expenses. But, it is not easy to find the closest one for my need. I review them all, and I have to remove some duplicate spreadsheets (spreadsheets that only have title differences). I also removed some basic personal budget spreadsheets because the creator just create a plain forms. And finally, I found a spreadsheet from about 15 spreadsheets that I have filtered.

If you are the same with me on try to find the personal budget spreadsheets that can suit your needs, you should see these 15 spreadsheets and find the strength and the weaknesses based on your criteria. And I recommend you to download some of them, test the spreadsheets, and do some customization to see whether it suit your needs or need more adjustment. Some spreadsheets came with a very detailed calculation and analysis, some spreadsheets created with nice layouts, and some others came with the simple budget calculation.

All my review here are based on my personal opinion… After you try it, probably you have different opinion than I am.

1. Family Budget

This is a yearly budget where you have to put your budget estimation and actual expenses monthly and you will see in separate worksheet whether your expenses are within your budget or not. Basically this is just a common yearly budget template. There is no guidance inside spreadsheet but I think you will easily understand how to use this spreadsheet.

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Euro 2008 Game Score Prediction

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:04:43 +0000

This is my first spreadsheet in this site. I would like to thank my friend at exceltemplate.net which allow me to modify his euro 2008 schedule template to ease me develop the game score prediction spreadsheet. The idea behind this spreadsheet is to make a league of score prediction game, where it the game will last until the final of euro 2008.

I divided this Euro 2008 game score into 4 rounds, i.e group rounds, quarter final, semifinal and final where it rounds have the same rule but different point value. You can change this point value.

The rule for getting point are as follows :

If the prediction of the match is exactly the same with the results, the player who predicted that will get the maximum point, where in the group round will get 100 and in the final will get 800.

If the prediction of the match is different in the score results, but the difference of the score is the same, the player who predicted that will get 75% of the maximum point, where in the group round will get 75 and in the final will get 600.

If the prediction of the match is different in the score results and the score difference, the player still can get 50% of maximum point, where in the group round will get 50 and in the final will get 400.

The player will get no point at all if their prediction is not correct.

Game guidance :

Put the maximum player in “Number of Players” cell, the maximum player in this game is 10 (you can modify it if you want more players)

Put the player name next to the number which shown up after you put the maximum player

Put your prediction score next to player name in group and knock out prediction scoresheet

When the result of any euro 2008 matches is revealed, put the results in Euro 2008 result sheet

See your score in player data and score worksheet.

You can see the display of player scoresheet in the picture below.

This spreadsheet is still basic, you can develop it to meet your game plan. I put a password for some sheets and cells to prevent the user of misstyping which can ruin the formula. But, if you want to modify the sheets, you can use the password “excel” to open the protection. If you want to share it in internet, please don’t delete the link to my site and my friend site in the worksheet.

You can download it here.

Feel free to give questions or any comments.