Save time and make your spreadsheet work a breeze with free Excel templates. Templates are formatted with placeholder text and formulas that make it easy to create financial statements, calendars, timesheets, business planners, checklists, meal planners, and more. Simply download the file, open it in Excel, and customize the worksheet to fit your needs.

The information in this article applies to all versions of Microsoft’s spreadsheet program, including the online version of Excel. If a template you like from this list exists only in the XLSX format, but your software requires it to be an XLS file, convert it with a free document file converter.

Microsoft Create’s Free Excel Templates

Microsoft has its own collection of dozens of free Excel templates. You can search by keyword and filter the results by style and color. For example, green modern or vintage templates.

  • Direct download in the XLTX format.

  • No user account necessary.

  • Includes a link to edit online for free.

  • Blurry preview images.

There’s a button to download these as XLSX files, or you can edit in your browser through MS Office Online.

Vertex42’s Free Excel Templates

Vertex42 overflows with options. You’ll find templates to create exercise and health records, to-do lists, timesheets, financial statements, expense reports, amortization schedules, mortgage calculators, attendance lists, gas mileage logs, weekly planners, and many others.

  • Hundreds of templates.

  • Lots of categories to browse through.

  • Detailed download pages.

  • Includes versions for Excel alternatives.

  • Ads on the website.

  • Can’t sort by criteria like popularity.

Each template shows you what the download contains (if it’s an archive or single file), what version of Excel it works with, a screenshot, and suggestions on how to use the template.

Trump Excel’s Free Excel Templates

It’s super easy to find and download free Excel templates from Trump Excel. All the templates are located on a single page, and at the top of the website is a list of the templates on the site. Browse the list and select one that fits your needs.

  • Unique templates.

  • Helpful GIFs showing how they work.

  • Extremely informative download pages.

  • Quick, direct downloads.

  • Can’t filter or sort.

  • Small selection.

This website provides screenshots that give a view of each free template and how-to instructions that show what the template is capable of handling.

WinCalendar’s Free Excel Templates

WinCalendar has free Excel templates for calendars and schedules that are really easy to edit. Calendar templates have the days of the week included. The schedule template files are blank.

  • Date-relevant templates.

  • Includes templates for last year.

  • Instant downloads.

  • Few options compared to other sites.

  • Tiny previews.

The calendar templates can be customized to include specific dates. Customize the calendar template to include a single month or a full year. The chosen dates are listed on one single sheet in Excel. There’s also a free Excel template that includes holidays from various countries like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others.

Spreadsheet123’s Free Excel Templates

When you browse through the free Excel templates at Spreadsheet123, you’ll find categories such as budgets, invoices, inventory, schedules, debt payoff, and timesheets.

  • Super useful templates.

  • Big previews.

  • Works with a variety of spreadsheet programs.

  • Lots of ads on the website.

  • Must be on the download page to see large previews.

When you select a template, you’re taken to a page that includes links for different versions of Excel, specifications that include a description of macros used in the template and the license agreement, a screenshot, and directions on how to use the template.

Brainy Betty’s Free Excel Templates

There are various types of free Excel templates at Brainy Betty. These templates range from weekly class planning and multiplication table templates to a family tree, meal planner, fitness chart, and loan calculator templates.

  • Instant downloads.

  • One-page list is easy to browse.

  • Must open an archive to get to the template.

  • Not a huge selection.

  • Doesn’t include image previews.

These templates are contained in ZIP files. Extract them before using them.

Calculate Hours’s Free Excel Templates

As the name suggests, Calculate Hours’ free Excel templates can be used as free timesheet tables. The timesheet templates can be filtered for weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedules. There are also templates that support military time, a night-shift schedule, and unpaid lunch break schedules.

  • Templates are specific.

  • Quick, direct downloads.

  • It’s hard to know what you’re downloading.

  • Few sorting options.

WPS’s Free Excel Templates

You’ll find over 70 pages of free Excel templates here, in categories like invoices, income and expenditure, salary, employee, attendance, and sales.

  • Slight but useful variations between templates.

  • Direct downloads (XLSX files).

  • Includes an online editor option.

  • Large previews.

  • Must log in to download templates.

  • Can’t filter out the premium templates to see just the free ones.

Although these templates are available through this site and therefore work with WPS Office (and their online editor), you don’t need to use them with that software because they’re stored in the Excel format. They’re compatible with any program that supports XLSX files.

Template.net’s Free Excel Templates

Template.net has hundreds of additional templates you can use for free in Excel. Categories include analysis, forms, inventory, estimate, itinerary, list, reports, schedules, notes, statements, and many others.

  • Hundreds of templates.

  • Full previews through an online template viewer.

  • Includes a filter to hide paid templates.

  • Must log in to download templates.

  • Templates are stored in ZIP files you have to unpack.

  • Website ads get in the way.

There are paid templates here, too, but there’s a Free filter you can toggle to hide them.

These templates are actually available for other apps, too. Each download page lets you pick where you want to use it, so not only is Excel an option, and Google Sheets, but even MS Word, Apple Pages, and others.

An account is needed to get the download links, but it’s free. You can log in quickly with Google or Outlook.

Template.net also includes its own online editor that you can access without an account. This is an easy way to see what the template looks and feels like if you want a quick glance.

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