The Calendar dialog box enables you to insert a calendar or modify an existing one.
The dialog box has seven Control Tabs for changing properties of your calendar and a Preview Window to preview the calendar before inserting it. The Control tabs are:
Type Tab
The program supports six types of calendars:
You can choose the corresponding radio button in this Tab.
This tab enables you to set font type and style for Months, Days, Date, Time (the variety of items depends on the selected Type of calendar). You can also apply the Underline effect when formatting the items. You can set different options for each item, or apply same settings to all of them. In the Apply Font To pull down menu, select an item, then select Font and Font Style. Check the Effects check box, if needed. Repeat this for each item. The Sample window shows a sample of selected font with all effects applied. You can set font settings for all items by selecting All of them from the Apply Font To menu. After you select any specific item in this menu and change its font type and style, the settings set for all items will no longer be applied to this specific item.
In this tab you can define desired colors for Fill, Border, Shadow, Days, Labels and Highlights of calendar.
To change color of an item, click the rectangular representation of the color beside the item name. It will activate the Choose Color window, where you can choose color from the available libraries, or click the More button to create your own color. See Edit Color Library section to learn how to do this.
There are also two check boxes to set:
Options Tab
Your calendar does not necessarily have to start with Sunday or Monday. You can set it to start with any day you want. You can also set the calendar orientation (vertical or horizontal) in this tab. Additionally, for monthly calendars, you can fill blank day positions with days of previous and/or next months (in small size) by checking corresponding check boxes. You can also add previous and next months for monthly calendars, in small size block each. Simply check the Thumbnails check box.
Date Tab
This tab is to specify a period of time you want to show in
Note that you can set either a starting week and day, or a date.
In all cases, you can click the Current button to set current date and time.
In this tab, you can set your calendar highlighted days in different color than the rest of the days.
You can highlight:
You can create different lists of highlighted days, name them and add to your
sets of highlighted days. For example, in the first list ("Friends") you can
keep birthdays of your friends (use "Fixed" days highlight); in the second
("Games") you can keep dates for the games of your favorite team (use
"Floating" days highlight if, for example, they play on Wednesdays). Later you
can create a calendar with these highlighted days by simply choosing "Friends"
or "Games" from the Sets of Highlighted Days.
To start a new set, click the Empty the List button. Select month and either fixed
or floating date, click the Add to the List button. After all wanted days are added
to the list click the Add a new Set... button. Enter a name for the new set and
click Add.
For more information on how to change the highlight color, refer to the section on Edit Color.
This tab enables you to set the monthly arrangement. You can define it in the Main Layout Type section:
For the last three types you can select a Subtype of a calendar - a number of blocks in
line. For the Rectangular type you can change orientation from horizontal to vertical by
checking the Vertically Ordered check box.
Referring to the Subtype of a calendar, there is the Best Layout button, which sets the
best fit for the page.