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Started by clean, November 30, 2021, 11:28:09 AM

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clean

https://www.ataglance.com/p/planners-calendars/planners-appointment-books/monthly-planners/2022-monthly-planner-black-large-701300522/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp701300522&sc_intid=701300522&gclid=Cj0KCQiAtJeNBhCVARIsANJUJ2EHdU92kBx8Fgy4Jd6r6xB103fm1F1HLtaPKbEuUm2maZokuIX1l4waAtsrEALw_wcB

the short question is that I am looking for a software package that will allow me to create calendars.

The longer version is that a few years ago I got a 5 year calendar from At a Glance. Each year I would get the refill for the 5th year.  However, 2024 was the last year that they sold the refills.  (initially was a delay , but recently they have simply stated that they no longer have that product).  So I am now looking or some software that will allow me to print the Month At A Glance type calendar formats.  DO you have any idea of what software I can get to make calendars?  (Ideally, I would like to add my own dates to print into something similar to the Month at a Glance calendar)

Any thoughts?
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Puget

Word has calendar templates, and there are also lots of printable calendar pages available for free online.
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Langue_doc

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Vertex has several varieties of weekly and monthly calendar templates (Excel).
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/

Scroll all the way down to see the monthly calendar templates.

Here are some of the weekly templates.
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/weekly-calendar.html

I like the second and third templates on this page:
https://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/weekly-schedule.html

clean

QuoteVertex has several varieties of weekly and monthly calendar templates (Excel).
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/

Scroll all the way down to see the monthly calendar templates.

Here are some of the weekly templates.
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/weekly-calendar.html

I like the second and third templates on this page:
https://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/weekly-schedule.html


Thank you very much!

Since posting, a coworker had alerted me that Excel had several templates available.  A you tube page indicated that I could search for more templates and the Vertex42 site has some good ones.

I have now emailed them for more information on one. I prefer the 2 page calendar, but in 2 pages, they have a planner, not a calendar.
I hope that they can simply tell me how to adjust the column widths and perhaps do a few other minor adjustments to get it to work, or merge the planner with the calendar function.

I have been looking into the template and it looks like it is not too too hard to program once you get the first row or 2 set up.  Still, it indicates that there is a LOT in the excel functions that I dont know how to do!  (mostly because I dont deal with the date functions I think)

BUT once this is done, I hope that it will make this an easy process and will allow me to continue to give my relative calendar updates to the 5 year calendar I  bought several years ago!  Those of us that use a paper calendar really appreciate the ability to plan years in advance!
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am"  Darth Vader

Langue_doc

clean, you can adjust the dates, time-slots and also the fonts once you download the templates. You don't need to know how to use Excel as you will be making only minor adjustments to the templates. I used to get the At-a-glance weekly calendars but would also have the printouts of the monthly and weekly calendars in the binders for each of my courses so that I could see the due dates for the assignments for each class.

clean

I have figured out how to do what I want to do in an efficient manner. I spent several hours last night trying different things.  Too much detail to provide here, but suffice to say that I have enough knowledge to be dangerous!  One of the founders replied to an email last night and that solved one issue that will save a lot of time when I work on it today.

My goal was to replicate the At A Glance Monthly planner/calendar which has six small calendars in the side margin (the prior month, current month and the next four months).  I can see a similar feature on their planner, but only the next 2 months on the planner, but not the calendar.  I was thinking that I could replicate the planner functions in the calendar functions, but that is where my excel knowledge fails. 

For now, I will finish the calendar feature that I need for now so that I can prepare gifts for my mom and niece (who would have been gifted the next calendar to keep their 5 year calendars to 5 years), but then I can buy myself some time to figure out the issue later.

Still I am impressed that there are pre-done calendar templates already loaded in Excel and that Vertex42  provides additional templates for free!
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mamselle

Will you add photos to the gift calendars, or are these just basic print-outs?

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clean

No pictures. They have FaceTube for such things.

It started when I got my mother, my niece, and myself a 5 year calendar.  My mom tracks the maturities of her CDs in hers.  Im not really sure what my niece tracks, but she is a kindergarten teacher (i think) and likes the longer term calendars over the term planners. 

While this will not have pictures I do personalize the information for each to include birthdays and anniversaries of relatives.  (as my niece is actually my nephew's bride, I am working now to include HER family information - at least what i can get from my sister in law... it may not include her parents' information, but once I give her THIS rendition of it, she can alert me to those dates and future updates will include all that she includes.
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am"  Darth Vader