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Excel Advent Calendar 2017 - Free Template

Anticipate Christmas By Counting Down The Days Using Excel

Advent Calendars are often referred to as Christmas countdown calendars. It is a special calendar used to count or celebrate the days in anticipation of Christmas. Our handmade Excel version has the form of a large rectangle with 24 Mediterranean style windows: one for each day leading-up to Christmas Day. Don't expect any treats to be hiding behind the windows on your monitor. Sorry, you can't punch out holes or print our template either!

Use the calendar online or while working offline.The windows should be opened starting with the first one. Our advent calendar template is esoteric. You have to answer multiple choice questions shown in the Ribbon in order to open each window! After an Excel quiz is answered correctly, a treat is revealed. You will be greeted by a warm Christmas message, after all questions have been ticked successfully.
Excel Advent Calendar powered by Ribbon Commander

Excel Advent Calendar powered by Ribbon Commander
Some buttons inside the question group, if clicked, will launch online articles with hints. Please hover you mouse over the button to read the control's supertip for further help. Don't forget to crank-up the volume of your PC, if you want to enjoy the MIDI sounds effects!

Quizzes From Some Of the MS-Office Community's Finest

Several Office bloggers have submitted quizzes with various degrees of difficulty for Excel and PowerPoint: 

  • Mourad Louha (Excel MVP) has translated the entire ribbon user interface in German. 

  • Chris 'Macro' who runs the eye-catching TheSpreadsheetGuru.com blog has contributed a VBA oriented question set.

  • The Slideshop.com quiz is for PowerPoint addicts!

  • Please check this page often, as more quiz providers are constantly being added!
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Quizzes have been submitted by several Office bloggers
Adventskalender

Excel Adventskalender - Translation by Mourad Louha Excel MVP

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Mourad is an Excel MVP working as independent software developer and trainer since 2005 and lives in Aachen, located at the tripoint between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In his spare time he shares his passion for Excel in online communities around Office, blogs about Office & Co. and operates own community projects in collaboration with friends and partners.
TheSpreadsheetGuru.com is a dedicated tutorial blog for data analysts who want to expand their knowledge of advanced and time-saving techniques in Microsoft's Excel, PowerPoint, and Word programs. Launched in 2014, this blog has quickly become recognized for its cutting-edge design and easy to understand tutorials geared towards those who want to become their company's resident office guru.
Slideshop.com provides professionally designed PowerPoint templates for personal and business presentations. Established by serial entrepreneur Toke Kruse, Slideshop also blogs about proven techniques for effective public speaking and communication.
wellsr.com is your one stop shop for everything VBA. Featuring step by step VBA tutorials and macro examples, the wellsr.com blog teaches you how to automate complex tasks while learning to master VBA basics. In addition to VBA articles, this site includes an Excel Add-ins shop where visitors can download add-ins designed to further integrate Excel and VBA in quick and powerful ways.
mathlayer is a C++ numerical library allowing to call Matlab/Octave code from other Windows applications including Microsoft Excel. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which means you can use it for free and for any purpose you want.
IntelExcel is a Portuguese based tutorial blog that aims to improve Excel knowledge and skills in the Brazilian community. Managed by Karine Lago, a passionate Excel consultant who is Microsoft Office Specialist Expert in Excel (MOS) certified.
Zemder es un sitio web con un grupo de trabajo dedicado a la optimización de procesos de negocio a través de Excel con VBA y Visual Studio, para diferentes tipos de clientes que utilizan Excel como herramienta fundamental para la mayoría de los puestos de trabajo en la empresa.
excelymas.com fue creado por Otto J Gonzalez, MVP de Office Apps & Services. La pasión de Otto es trabajar con hojas de cálculo y compartir su conocimiento en línea con la vibrante comunidad de Excel en español. Excel & Más cuenta con muchísimo contenido de útilidad para aquellos que desean aprender o mejorar sus habilidades en Excel y VBA.
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We hope that our Advent Calendar provides an educational and fun experience!
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VBA Chord Diagram With Hierarchical Edge Bundling

This VBA chord diagram uses the free D3.js JavaScript library to demonstrate a graphical method of displaying the inter-relationships between code procedures in the Advent Calendar VBA project powered by Ribbon Commander.

The data is arranged radially around a circle with the relationships between the points drawn as arcs connecting the procedures together. Instead of using straight lines to show the interconnections, this chord diagram employs a technique called 'hierarchical edge bundling' to reduce visual complexity.

The project name, module type and name is shown at the bottom of the chart when the mouse pointer hovers over a VBA procedure (mouse click not required).
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