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Shift Scheduler for Excel is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet designed to provide you with the possibility to learn how to create employee schedules. With the help of this template, you can also track shifts, along with the work hours that have been scheduled for each employee.

The spreadsheet can prove a great option for small businesses, as well as for those departments where managers are still scheduling shifts manually, either on paper or on computer. Basically, this is the best solution for those companies that do not want to spend money on a more expensive and sophisticated tool.

You can can learn how to use Shift Scheduler for Excel fast, by simply following the instructions already included in it.

To get started with the spreadsheet, you need to enter the names of all the employees that you need to schedule, by editing the wordbook named “Employees.”

Next, you need to go to the “Week 1” workbook, where you can describe the shifts you need to schedule. There, you can also enter the times at which each shift starts or ends.

As soon as you have concluded these steps, you can assign employees to shifts by simply clicking on any corresponding cell. Any cell that remains unmarked will be greyed out when printing the schedule.

In addition to allowing you to easily schedule shifts, the spreadsheet also provides you with info on the hours that have been scheduled, and can also offer an estimation of the payroll, as long as you input details on the average hourly wage.

The spreadsheet can be fully modified in Excel, as long as it has been purchased. A link to the unprotected version will be sent to you by email upon purchase.

Those of you who need to schedule shifts for up to 20 employees might find this tool a useful solution. However, it might not prove a suitable tool for scheduling a larger number of people.