Phil_rose Posted November 4, 2023 Posted November 4, 2023 (edited) Hi all, I am creating a calendar and I would like to have each page (other than front and back) have the month name on them a la the attached screenshot. Is there a way I can add that to each page or a master page or something and have it automatically update through the doc so the Jan page has January, Feb has February etc? I could do this by hand but I'd like to learn this program more so any help would be wildly appreciated! Phil Edited November 4, 2023 by Phil_rose Added the screenshot. Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Old Bruce Posted November 4, 2023 Posted November 4, 2023 20 minutes ago, Phil_rose said: have the month name on them a la the attached screenshot. I am not seeing any screenshot. So i am unsure of what you need, it may be possible to use Section names or Custom fields from the Fields panel in Publisher. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Phil_rose Posted November 4, 2023 Author Posted November 4, 2023 15 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I am not seeing any screenshot. So i am unsure of what you need, it may be possible to use Section names or Custom fields from the Fields panel in Publisher. Oops. I is dum! Should be right now. Sorry about that. Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Old Bruce Posted November 4, 2023 Posted November 4, 2023 Okay, so am I correct in assuming this is a 12 (24(?)) page calendar? You would not really save any time or effort using Sections or Custom fields, you would still need to type the months' names somewhere so why not in a placeholder Text Frame from a Master Page, or even just making a Text Frame directly on the Actual Page. PaulEC 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Phil_rose Posted November 5, 2023 Author Posted November 5, 2023 Thanks, Anto, I tried that but had no luck. I am adding screenshots but I don't see the red triangles. I must be doing something wrong. Am I pasting in the text box on the Master Page or page 1? I thought the latter but I don't know. Thanks for your help! Can you spot what I might be doing wrong? Phil ScreenHunter 23.mp4 Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Phil_rose Posted November 5, 2023 Author Posted November 5, 2023 Thanks! I'll try this in a little while. Thanks again! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Phil_rose Posted November 5, 2023 Author Posted November 5, 2023 God knows what I'm doing wrong but I can't make it work. I'll have to revisit this when I have a bit more time. Thanks! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Peter Breis Posted November 5, 2023 Posted November 5, 2023 Are you creating the months as a table, which is the logical method? In that case make the month a cell as part of the table, in whatever position you want, top, left, bottom or right, with whatever style formatting you want, then make that a master page with place holder text. To make room for a large month name, you can merge cells. Then paste the month names from a text document, listing months, days, day numbers etc. I think Word has an automatic Calendar generator, you can perhaps import the text from that and refine the formatting in Publisher. Quote
Phil_rose Posted November 7, 2023 Author Posted November 7, 2023 On 11/5/2023 at 2:04 PM, Peter Breis said: Are you creating the months as a table, which is the logical method? In that case make the month a cell as part of the table, in whatever position you want, top, left, bottom or right, with whatever style formatting you want, then make that a master page with place holder text. To make room for a large month name, you can merge cells. Then paste the month names from a text document, listing months, days, day numbers etc. I think Word has an automatic Calendar generator, you can perhaps import the text from that and refine the formatting in Publisher. I am really not very good at this stuff! Is that what I should look into to make it work? I don't have Word. I use WPS but maybe that has it though I am now past that point as I did it manually but I would like to learn for next time. Thanks! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com
Peter Breis Posted November 7, 2023 Posted November 7, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, Phil_rose said: I am really not very good at this stuff! Is that what I should look into to make it work? I don't have Word. I use WPS but maybe that has it though I am now past that point as I did it manually but I would like to learn for next time. Thanks! Here is an example of a table used for creating a Calendar month. The big cells are created by selecting a bunch of smaller cells and merging them. The lines, if you want them are made by selecting certain cells and giving them a border: The dates for particular months you can quickly copy and paste from a single table set up like this, deleting the dates you do not want for shorter months: I created these in Pages for Mac because it is quicker and cleaner to show you, but the same applies to Affinity Publisher or any capable layout App. Affinity Publisher is some what cruder and clumsier but allows you to create commercially printable files. I am sorry it took a bit longer to post this response, but Affinity has a max 5 posts per day limit for some reason. Edited November 7, 2023 by Peter Breis Oufti 1 Quote
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