Calendar Ownership

Under.zip (XCalendar) "Calendar" - Generates a calendar in a manner far superior to Microsoft's method.

You have a calendar open on your desktop.

It belongs to you!

You can adjust the appearance in any way you choose.

In the example below I have introduced a dotted line as the lower border of the Normal style. This has the effect of splitting each day cell into a morning and afternoon segment.

As a bonus, it displays an area for comments at the foot of the page.

Calendar Change The Days

Under.zip (XCalendar) "Calendar" - Generates a calendar in a manner far superior to Microsoft's method.

You have a calendar open on your desktop.

I see no reason why your week must start on a Monday. Try changing the column headings to read "Sat" through "Fri"

I see no reason why you should not utilise the French names for the days of your week.

Note in the example below that I have re-arranged the starting day of the week, and hence this example has one less row than the previous example.

Spanish? German? Yes, that might work!

Next: Ownership

Calendar Number Of Days

Under.zip (XCalendar) "Calendar" - Generates a calendar in a manner far superior to Microsoft's method.

You have a calendar open on your desktop.

The Calendar macro has created special styles for you; you have modified the styles to change the appearance of your calendar.

Now delete the rightmost column and change the (new!) rightmost column to read "W/E", as in "Weekend".

Rerun the Calendar macro and note that with a 6-column calendar, each business day has more room for notes.

I see no reason why you should not use an eleven-column calendar to represent a schedule of ten days "on" and four days "off"

Next: Change the days

Calendar Appearance

Under.zip (XCalendar) "Calendar" - Generates a calendar in a manner far superior to Microsoft's method.

You have a calendar open on your desktop.

The Calendar macro has created special styles for you; you can modify the styles to change the appearance of your calendar.

Place the cursor on or next to a day number within a table cell, then choose Format, Style, Modify, Format, Font and change the typefaces, size, colour, or what-have you.

Confirm out of there and admire your work.

Next: Change the number of days

Calendar Basics

Under.zip (XCalendar) "Calendar" - Generates a calendar in a manner far superior to Microsoft's method.

In a blank document, run the calendar macro:

The macro will generate a trivial table and prompt you for a year and month.

Confirm with OK and watch a month of dates being prepared.

The macro will (slowly!) adjust the size of the table to fit on one page.

Choose File, Page setup and switch to landscape mode.

Rerun the Calendar macro to obtain a month of dates in landscape mode.

Next: Change the appearance