Creating a calendar

Publisher 2000 - Windows XP Pro user.

Today I needed to create a calendar for a member directory booklet . How
does one create more than a month at a time? I'd like to create a calendar
from Jan '07 through Mar '08.

The only success I've had is create a month at a time, which all defaulted
to November '06. I then copy/pasted three across and then copy/pasted the
three across below, four times which then create my 15 month calendar but
all were November '06.

Refined it by changing the days font to Aerial, 10pt, the days of the week
to Aerial, 5pt and the months to Aerial 10pt. The wizard made changing the
day of the month somewhat easy.

Doing a little stretching on the width (of 3 months) and adding a space text
box between each of the 3 month groups resulted in an easy to read 15 month
calendar on a 5½"x8½".

Yes, I did look in the Help but failed to find some.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA

When you create a monthly calendar that spans two years, Publisher will create
two pages.
What you are doing is about right. I used the "Understated Calendar." I selected
Dates in the Wizard, typed your dates, selected yearly.
This gave me two pages, I changed the font size for the title to something
smaller, dragged the calendar on page one up, copied January-March on page two,
pasted it into page one.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Publisher 2000 - Windows XP Pro user.

Today I needed to create a calendar for a member directory booklet . How does
one create more than a month at a time? I'd like to create a calendar from
Jan '07 through Mar '08.

The only success I've had is create a month at a time, which all defaulted to
November '06. I then copy/pasted three across and then copy/pasted the three
across below, four times which then create my 15 month calendar but all were
November '06.

Refined it by changing the days font to Aerial, 10pt, the days of the week to
Aerial, 5pt and the months to Aerial 10pt. The wizard made changing the day
of the month somewhat easy.

Doing a little stretching on the width (of 3 months) and adding a space text
box between each of the 3 month groups resulted in an easy to read 15 month
calendar on a 5½"x8½".

Yes, I did look in the Help but failed to find some.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA

Mary,

I don't see how to create a calendar for more than one month. I do Insert,
Design Gallery Object and select the calendar, one month. To get additional
months I need to start over with Insert, Design Gallery Object, select the
colander. To change the date it will let me work with one month only. I
can never get the Wizard to unshade the "The end date box."

Problem here is working with old brain; something before a 286. G

don


"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
...
When you create a monthly calendar that spans two years, Publisher will
create two pages.
What you are doing is about right. I used the "Understated Calendar." I
selected Dates in the Wizard, typed your dates, selected yearly.
This gave me two pages, I changed the font size for the title to something
smaller, dragged the calendar on page one up, copied January-March on page
two, pasted it into page one.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Publisher 2000 - Windows XP Pro user.

Today I needed to create a calendar for a member directory booklet . How
does one create more than a month at a time? I'd like to create a
calendar from Jan '07 through Mar '08.

The only success I've had is create a month at a time, which all
defaulted to November '06. I then copy/pasted three across and then
copy/pasted the three across below, four times which then create my 15
month calendar but all were November '06.

Refined it by changing the days font to Aerial, 10pt, the days of the
week to Aerial, 5pt and the months to Aerial 10pt. The wizard made
changing the day of the month somewhat easy.

Doing a little stretching on the width (of 3 months) and adding a space
text box between each of the 3 month groups resulted in an easy to read
15 month calendar on a 5½"x8½".

Yes, I did look in the Help but failed to find some.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA

You can't change the date range in the Design Gallery. It is a one calendar
month. What you can do is insert over and over. I don't get the problem you are
having with the resize, When I resize the text automatically goes smaller.
The Design Gallery is the same in 2003 and as near as I can tell, it is the same
in 2007.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Mary,

I don't see how to create a calendar for more than one month. I do Insert,
Design Gallery Object and select the calendar, one month. To get additional
months I need to start over with Insert, Design Gallery Object, select the
colander. To change the date it will let me work with one month only. I can
never get the Wizard to unshade the "The end date box."

Problem here is working with old brain; something before a 286. G

don


"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
...
When you create a monthly calendar that spans two years, Publisher will
create two pages.
What you are doing is about right. I used the "Understated Calendar." I
selected Dates in the Wizard, typed your dates, selected yearly.
This gave me two pages, I changed the font size for the title to something
smaller, dragged the calendar on page one up, copied January-March on page
two, pasted it into page one.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Publisher 2000 - Windows XP Pro user.

Today I needed to create a calendar for a member directory booklet . How
does one create more than a month at a time? I'd like to create a calendar
from Jan '07 through Mar '08.

The only success I've had is create a month at a time, which all defaulted
to November '06. I then copy/pasted three across and then copy/pasted the
three across below, four times which then create my 15 month calendar but
all were November '06.

Refined it by changing the days font to Aerial, 10pt, the days of the week
to Aerial, 5pt and the months to Aerial 10pt. The wizard made changing the
day of the month somewhat easy.

Doing a little stretching on the width (of 3 months) and adding a space text
box between each of the 3 month groups resulted in an easy to read 15 month
calendar on a 5½"x8½".

Yes, I did look in the Help but failed to find some.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA

I think I'm expecting more from Publisher than the options that are
provided. Build a multi-months operation rather than a single month at a
time.

But thanks for the help Mary.

don



"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
...
You can't change the date range in the Design Gallery. It is a one
calendar month. What you can do is insert over and over. I don't get the
problem you are having with the resize, When I resize the text
automatically goes smaller.
The Design Gallery is the same in 2003 and as near as I can tell, it is
the same in 2007.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Mary,

I don't see how to create a calendar for more than one month. I do
Insert, Design Gallery Object and select the calendar, one month. To get
additional months I need to start over with Insert, Design Gallery
Object, select the colander. To change the date it will let me work with
one month only. I can never get the Wizard to unshade the "The end date
box."

Problem here is working with old brain; something before a 286. G

don


"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
...
When you create a monthly calendar that spans two years, Publisher will
create two pages.
What you are doing is about right. I used the "Understated Calendar." I
selected Dates in the Wizard, typed your dates, selected yearly.
This gave me two pages, I changed the font size for the title to
something smaller, dragged the calendar on page one up, copied
January-March on page two, pasted it into page one.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx

"Don Schmidt" Don Retired wrote in message
...
Publisher 2000 - Windows XP Pro user.

Today I needed to create a calendar for a member directory booklet .
How does one create more than a month at a time? I'd like to create a
calendar from Jan '07 through Mar '08.

The only success I've had is create a month at a time, which all
defaulted to November '06. I then copy/pasted three across and then
copy/pasted the three across below, four times which then create my 15
month calendar but all were November '06.

Refined it by changing the days font to Aerial, 10pt, the days of the
week to Aerial, 5pt and the months to Aerial 10pt. The wizard made
changing the day of the month somewhat easy.

Doing a little stretching on the width (of 3 months) and adding a space
text box between each of the 3 month groups resulted in an easy to read
15 month calendar on a 5½"x8½".

Yes, I did look in the Help but failed to find some.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA