by Kate Flaxx

Created on: November 21, 2010

There are some excellent websites available to download free printable calendars. Calendars and useful items but buying a professionally printed calendar is sometimes a very expensive option especially since a calendar has a use by date of 12 months. It’s often much easier to download and print your own calendar especially if you’re a person who likes to scribble dates and important engagements on them.

The following three websites require no login information or any other information from the website user. Visiting these websites involves choosing or creating your calendar and then printing it;

www.calendarlabs.com

Calendarlabs.com is an excellent website for free printable calendars. There are many attractive templates to choose from as well as the option to create your own calendar in a few different formats such as whole year to a page and one page to a month. Here there is an endless choice available with one of those being an astrology calendar that personalizes the user’s calendar choice with their choice of astrological sign, e.g. Taurus, Virgo...all of them. In addition to choosing an already made template, the user can also create their own calendar by uploading a photo or picture of their own choice. As well as the items that can be chosen in different formats, Calendarlabs.com offers the option to change the country to reflect different holidays and other important dates.

www.eprintablecalendars.com

Eprintablecalendars.com offers a range of calendar sizes and formats as well as calendars for future and previous years. The calendars available on this website are very basic in appearance, but come in several formats such as a planner type calendar available in one month to a page with the option to add a notes section to each month. As well as the above calendar formats, eprintablecalendars.com calendars are available to download in several formats such as PDF, regular and business size. These calendars don’t have the flair the other website calendars have, but they do suit someone who just wants a calendar, no pictures and no visual effects or colours.

www.vertex42.com

Lat but not least, this has to be the best out of the three. The calendars available for download here are excellently presented and also come in a range of different formats. They are free to download and open up in Microsoft Excel. The choice of calendar templates includes 2011 calendars, weekly calendars, academic calendars and photo calendars. The choice of templates for all categories is not high but the professional look of these calendars make up for the lack of choice. One of the best calendar features is the daily planner.  The daily planner is downloaded in Microsoft Excel and is a planner that is completely changeable. The program opens up with one page but to customize, it’s just a matter of typing in the right date at the top, the planner will then pick up what day it is on its own. This is an excellent part of this website and an alternative to using a monthly calendar; daily calendars may be a preference for some people. This website offers a range of easy to use and easy to download calendars. The choices available will suit everyone and anyone.

Whether you’re looking for a basic calendar or a calendar that’s fully customised to suit you, these three websites will cater to you all your calendar needs.  Just as a hint, if you like the look of the glossy calendar that can be purchased in stores, try printing your calendar on gloss photo paper.  Doing this gives an excellent effect especially when you print a photo calendar.

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