<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/18b53ec0-5f79-44ce-9607-2ebb3598b2ef/A292DBA4-8A81-430D-A846-511C9ADF0510/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/" href="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/" style="font-size: 11px;">davidseah.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/"><P>I recently found myself doing more project planning than I have in a while, so I dusted off my old <STRONG>compact calendar</STRONG>. I first made this years ago, when I needed to estimate realistic project schedules for various proposals. It’s just a simple printable calendar, packaged like a <EM>candy bar o’ time</EM>, but the design justification runs more deeply than you might think.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/"><P><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" title="Compact%A0Calendar%A0Sheet" class="lzimg-right"><IMG width="134" height="173" alt="Compact%A0Calendar%A0Sheet" src="http://davidseah.com/wordpress/wp-content/imgcache/images/06/134-0217-ccal02.gif.jpg" /></A> For <STRONG>high-level</STRONG> planning of dates and deliverables, I use this <STRONG>compact calendar</STRONG>. I just circle dates and underline ranges, and I can write notes in the generous space to the right. Think of it as a way to <STRONG>doodle out your schedule</STRONG>. It’s a nice <STRONG>parlor trick</STRONG> too, when you whip out a few of these sheets at a client meeting to do a quick thumbnail schedule on-the-spot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/"><P>It’s an <STRONG>Excel</STRONG> spreadsheet template. Unzip <CODE>CompactCalendar.zip</CODE> and double-click the resulting <CODE>CompactCalendar.xlt</CODE> file to open a new copy of it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/02/17/my-compact-calender-excel-sheet/"><P>» Download <STRONG><A href="http://davidseah.com/pub/downloads/pceo/calendar/CompactCalendar2007.zip" set="yes">Compact Calendar (US English) for 2007</A></STRONG> (multiple versions) » Filename: <CODE>CompactCalendar2007.zip</CODE></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A292DBA4-8A81-430D-A846-511C9ADF0510/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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