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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

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Posted
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.

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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.

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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.

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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

 

 

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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!

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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.

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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!

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Posted (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:

CalendarTablelayoutexample.png.fb216d6b095d2ec8fb1952cbc4e6871d.png

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:

Calendarsupermonthtable.png.ca9a48f90d8ff96adeba9589c94121f0.png

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.

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