Software & Apps > Google Apps How to Use the Calendar Template in Google Docs Quickly create any calendar you need By Tim Fisher Tim Fisher Facebook Twitter Senior Vice President & Group General Manager, Tech & Sustainability Emporia State University Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on February 3, 2021 Reviewed by Ryan Perian Reviewed by Ryan Perian Western Governors University Ryan Perian is a certified IT specialist who holds numerous IT certifications and has 12+ years' experience working in the IT industry support and management positions. lifewire's editorial guidelines Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Google Apps Docs Sheets Slides What To Know Google doesn't have templates for Docs, but lots of other sites do. We like CalendarLabs.com and Template.net. CalendarLabs: Choose a template and click Download > Make a copy to copy the file into your Google Drive account. Then you can make edits to the template as you would any Google Doc. This article explains how to download and edit calendar templates in Google Docs. The steps below are for the desktop version of Google Docs. However, once the template is imported into a document, you can view and edit it in the mobile app. Find a Google Docs Calendar Template Creating a calendar in Google Docs is tedious if you plan to start from scratch. A much better alternative is to import a premade calendar template directly into the document. The first step is to locate a calendar template. Google doesn't provide any for Docs (they do for Google Sheets), but many other sites do. We'll use CalendarLabs.com. Search the Calendar labs site for docs calendar to find updated templates, or go directly to the current year's template. Another good option is Template.net because you get several months at once. Google Docs accepts Microsoft Word documents, too. So if there are DOC or DOCX files with calendars in them, you can download those and then open them in Docs to use them. Select Download on the template you want to use. On the next page, click Make a copy to copy the file into your Google Drive account. If you’re asked to sign in, do that now. You'll immediately be taken to the calendar in a new document. Edit the Docs Calendar Template Making changes to a calendar in Google Docs works the same way you’d change anything. But it’s important to remember that you’re working within a table, so it’s not as fluid as regular document text. To add text, click inside one of the days and start typing. You can also insert pictures, edit each day's number, adjust the table borders, add additional rows and columns, merge columns to create a section for notes, change text size and color, etc. See How to Make a Table in Google Docs if you'd rather build the calendar from scratch. Also in that article is more information on editing tables if you want to customize a calendar template. Consider Google Sheets Calendars Google Docs is excellent for document-style editing. That's its purpose, and that's what it excels at. But for structured data like a calendar, you might prefer Google Sheets. There are calendar templates built-in to it that are easy to grab, and depending on how you plan to use the calendar, Sheets might even be a better choice. Does your calendar need a space to write something? As you saw above with Docs, creating events is extremely easy because you're actually editing a table cell. But if you need to highlight particular days out of the month or print something off, you can glance at it to know what day of the week it is; the calendar templates in Sheets are enough. There are a few options. Find them by opening Sheets and selecting Template gallery at the top. Get Organized With These Free Online Calendars Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. Thank you for signing up! Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit