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CALENDARS.ZIP (v1.04;
02/27/08; 80,616 bytes)
The individual macros are
compatible with the WP versions noted in the next column. (Not
for WP 11.0.0.233; see here
for more.)
Downloading,
Documentation, Modifications, and Support
Probably more than you ever wanted
to know about calendars and related oddities:
(Somewhat) related links:
- If you need to quickly calculate
or insert a date that is "x" days in the future
(or the past) from today, you can use this small macro: INSDATE.ZIP.
(v1.01; 12/08/06; 6,351 bytes).
- To calculate new dates using
table cells, see here.
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Contains three macros:
 Monthly calendar.wcm
(v1.04 - For WordPerfect 10 and later versions only) - Creates a monthly calendar on one
(Letter- or A4-size) page with two smaller (previous/next month)
calendars at the top of the page. Many formatting options are
available from a pop up menu. You can also create up to 120 sequential
monthly calendars in one operation. [Screen
shot of resulting calendar document]
- The calendars are created in
WordPerfect tables so you can type inside any table cell. You
can also select cells and join them, if desired.
- Several options are available
from a dialog menu. [Screen
shot of calendar menu] You can choose the month, year, number
of sequential calendars, page size (letter, A4), orientation
(portrait, landscape), page margins, page background (white,
color, transparent), subtitle text, and footer text and/or date.
Several more formatting options are available in the User Modification
Area of the macro's code (you can view them by opening the macro
for editing; here's how to
download and modify macros from this site).
- TIPS
- Mark a date cell: Left-click
on any date in a calendar to put the cursor in the cell, then
right-click to bring up the context menu. Choose Borders/Fill,
then Outside. Choose a heavy border, then choose a Color. Click
OK to return to the document. The date cell will have a thick
border around it.
- Insert your favorite watermark
image on the page(s). Select the Transparent option from the
menu to allow the watermark to show through the calendar, then
create the calendar(s). Position the cursor at the very top of
the document, and click Insert, Watermark, Create. Insert your
favorite image. Stretch the image to fill the watermark window.
Adjust watermark shading from the watermark property bar, if
desired. Click File, Close to return to the main document. [See
also Footnote 1 below.]
- New in
versions 1.03a / 1.04:
- An option on the menu lets you
split weekday (date) rows horizontally. See the User Modification
Area at the top of the macro's code for various related options
you can set as defaults: For example, you can shade the weekday
rows (i.e., cells with day numbers); remove bottom cell border
lines from the weekday number rows; or use a dashed or dotted
line as dividing lines. Now you can more easily select and join
cells across weekdays so that you can span several days with
a space to write common information (e.g., "On vacation"
or "Trip to London").
- Version 1.04 gives you the option to remove cell
borders from all non-date cells (those cells before the first
day and after the last day of each month); this might be useful
on printed calendars to provide extra white space for writing
notes or reminders on the calendar.
- Note that cell borders
are visible only if you disable (un-tick) WordPerfect's View,
Table Gridlines. The cell border's guidelines are
visible if you enable (tick) WordPerfect's View, Guidelines,
Tables. For more on these features, see here.
- You can also place your cursor
inside a table cell and insert clip art with Insert, Graphics,
Clipart. The clip art image will be automatically sized to fit
the table cell; right-click the image and choose Image Tools
to adjust the Brightness to allow text to show through the graphic
image.
- The two small calendars on each
monthly calendar page are created with tables placed inside graphic
boxes, which act as "containers" to hold the calendars.
You can copy a box (use Reveal Codes to locate, select, and copy
the [Box] code) and paste that box into another document where
you might want to use a small (approximately 1.4" wide)
calendar. The box can be dragged into position. Right-click the
box for various options.
- See the redlined User Modification
Area at the top of the macro's code to make changes to the menu
or other default values. You can open a macro just like any other
WordPerfect document, then save your edits with the Save&Compile
button on the macro property bar.
- Annual calendars.wcm (v1.03) - (For WordPerfect 9 and later versions) - Creates 12 monthly calendars on one portrait-oriented
page (Letter size, A4, etc.), in three different layouts -- Full
Page. Two Columns (left and right sides of page), and Two Rows
(top and bottom of page).
- NOTES and
TIPS
- For the two column/row formats,
you can type text between the calendars. This makes these formats
useful for announcements, meeting agendas, events, reminder lists,
etc.
- You can choose to create the
calendars in color or make them transparent so that a watermark
will show through the calendars. [UPDATE: See Footnote
1 below.] You can also add a header and/or footer to the
page.
- Calendars are created in 12
small tables of fixed sizes. Depending on your printer driver,
you may need to adjust margins to make the 12 calendars fit on
one page.
- New in
version 1.03: A new
menu option lets you split weekday rows horizontally (N.B.: Full
Page format only): Once split, select contiguous cells, right-click
them, then choose Join Cells. You can then type information that
spans multiple days. You can also apply a color "fill"
to the joined cells by selecting the cells and right-clicking
them, then choosing Borders/Fill, then Cell Fill to set the intensity.
- Once all calendars are created,
you can edit the page and select a single calendar (or a six-month
boxed calendar) to copy it to another document. Be sure to use
Reveal Codes and select everything from the [Tbl Def] code
to the [Tbl Off] code for the particular calendar you want
to copy. Pasting a single calendar into a text box (that you
can resize to "hug" the calendar) will let you drag
the calendar to a new location; the text box can have body text
wrapped around it by selecting the box, right-clicking it, and
choosing Wrap.
- See the redlined User Modification
Area at the top of the macro's code to make changes to the menu
or other default values. You can set the menu and calendar text
defaults by opening the macro like any other document and following
the instructions at the top of the code. Then Save&Compile
the macro from the property bar. For example, you can add your
company name so that it appears automatically in the header text.
- Find day
of week.wcm (v1.02) -
(For WordPerfect 8 and later versions; may also work in earlier versions)
- "Perpetual calendar" - Select a month, day, and year
form a menu and the macro will tell you what day of the week
the date falls on. Useful for any date since the Gregorian calendar
was introduced in A.D. 1582. (Not tested with far future dates.)
- TIP for advanced users:
- The "engine" (code
routine) that does the work of finding the day of the week was
also used in the Annual
calendars macro above. It
may be of interest to programmers who want to create their own
monthly or yearly calendars with a macro. It was based on a mathematical
formula called Zeller's Rule (see, for example, http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.calendar.html.)
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Footnote 1
Intermediate to Advanced
users:
Until I get around to modifying
the macro's code with new features to incorporate ideas such
as the following, you could create one or more macros
that insert a graphic image as a full-page watermark, similar
to the one shown in the example page linked above. They could
be chosen from a small menu, similar to the way other items can
be attached to menus (described here).
You would simply create a calendar and play the appropriate image-inserting
macro.
In the following example code
(created by recording a macro in WP11.0.0.300) you will need
to change the path
and name of the graphic image
in the BoxImageRetrieve() command to the path and name of the
image on your own system. Also, if you use the A4 paper size,
change the dimensions in the BoxWidth() command to 8.3"
and the box height() command to 1.7".
WatermarkA (Action: Create!;
Margin: Off!)
BoxCreate (BoxType: WatermarkImageBox!)
BoxContentType (Content: Image!)
BoxImageRetrieve (Action: MakeInternal!; Filename:
"D:\Corel\WordPerfect
Office 11\Graphics\Clipart\Landscap\g0800946.wpg")
BoxUpdateDisplay ()
BoxImageBrightness (Amount: 0.8) // (<= adjusts default value; delete
if not needed)
BoxUpdateDisplay ()
BoxHorizontalAlignment (Alignment: AlignMargins!; Position: Left!)
BoxWidth (Width: 8.5")
BoxVerticalAlignment (Alignment: Top!)
BoxHeight (Height: 11.0")
BoxUpdateDisplay ()
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