Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Posted September 5, 2018 I'm going to use a Calendar as a way of showing a few useful features I found out - and some suggestions. Firstly, dragging out a table is great! Select the Table icon in the tool bar, select the Snapping tool to get it to snap to the margins, and simply Drag Out the table - you will see it gives dimensions - rows and column counts too! Pretty cool! There are only a few modifier keys available. A modifier key is when you are using the mouse to move/alter something and press a key on the keyboard to get it to behave a different way. Shift = constrains proportions CMD = sizes from the centre point where you clicked on the screen What I think is missing is a modifier key to allow the amount of rows and columns - simple arrow keys could add and remove rows and columns would be super useful! For this calendar - I only want the First 3 rows to appear. Month - Days - Dates I draw out the table and let go of the mouse and low and behold - I have 7 (that was lucky) columns and 3 rows, as I only dragged down that far. The added feature that's pretty cool! With the Table tool still selected - you can drag down the table from the tab as indicated. Or similarly - on the right hand side, grab the tab and drag to add more columns! You can slide them up and down or left and rigth until you have the desired amount of columns or rows. However, once you have made your decision - you cannot remove the rows/columns by dragging them back up. I presume this is to prevent deleting information accidentally, however, if the cells are empty I don't see why this can't be done If you want to remove the column/row you can select it and right click and choose Delete Row However if you have more than one row/column selected you cannot choose to Delete Rows! No option to Delete Rows To delete more than one Row/Column you have to use the Table menu and choose "Delete Rows" or "Delete Columns" Onto the calendar! Select the top row and right click and choose Merge Cells View>Studio>Table (I believe this menu and sub menus are subject to change) Select your table and add some "Insets" so the text doesn't butt up against the cell wall - this is optional and you can adjust to how you like. Very important to ensure you're on the CELLS portion - there is an option for the FRAME - which is above in the screenshot of the Table Panel, this is relating to the Frame the table sits in and not the Table Properties. That's a bit confusing becuase you'd expect the Table options to the forefront of the options, however, not a major issue! In fact it's all optional - I'm leaving mine plain because I want to show another feature. Insert the Month top row - days on the 2nd row - and leave the 3rd row blank. Select the entire 3rd row and go to View>Studio>Paragraph Expand the Bullets and Numbering List! Choose 1. 2. 3. 4. Change the text section to read as. Note - when you edit this panel option - you need to hit Return - this shouldn't be the case - if you don't hit return your changes won't be implemented. Your table should now look like this! Grag the TAB as shown before - to expand the table to add more rows. January 2019 starts on a Tuesday (any calendar will tell you that ) Cool feature! You can select cells noncontiguous - that means they don't have to be beside each other. To do this - select the A3 cell - then let go of the mouse to leave it highlighted. Press the CMD key (possibly CTRL on PC) which is the "modifier key" then select the remaining cells. From the List Type in the Paragraph Panel - you can then set this to NO LIST. Your table will now automatically renumber to ensure all the days have the correct number assigned. Drag the handle down on the side of the table - to make it fill the page! Select the numbered rows - right click and select distribute rows evenly Duplicate your page Rename Month to February January ended on a Thursday - so February starts on a Friday and February 2018 has 28 days. Select the first 3 days - and set the Paragraph Numbering to No List Voila! February is Done! Add your icons! Now you can repeat the steps to make the remaining calendar months! Papacola, mswift, Polygonius and 12 others 12 3 Quote
Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Author Posted September 5, 2018 I can't stop the images repeating at the end - sorry! Quote
Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Author Posted September 5, 2018 You can downlod the file here https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrww5ta141zzck3/Calendar.afpub?dl=0 Quote
GaseousClay Posted September 5, 2018 Posted September 5, 2018 Fab work Eugene, I'm going to digest this over the next couple of days. Need to get my head around this shortcut for populating the dates for each month, I did mine manually per month. I noticed if you just click the tab that you used to drag for more rows, you get a pop out with a counter, handy for larger number of rows. Eugene Tyson 1 Quote
Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Author Posted September 5, 2018 Thanks! @GaseousClay Yes a lot of people insert the dates manually - which leaves room for errors. If you automatically number the cells using Numbering in the Paragraph panels, you can avoid costly mistakes! It's virtually impossible to make a mistake, unless you start on the wrong day! As a sidenote: in my youth I designed a comic book called Gaseous Clay, a boxer who won by farting out his opponents - needless to say it never took off - funny though that it's your username, brings back memories... GaseousClay and Artpix 2 Quote
GaseousClay Posted September 5, 2018 Posted September 5, 2018 I decided on my username from the fact my surname is Clay, a mate at school used to call me Cassius but I never was much of a fighter. Though I do suffer with a lot of wind. Quote
Seneca Posted September 5, 2018 Posted September 5, 2018 As suggestion you once you complete January save the style of this table. Then you can apply this style to subsequent months. Of course you could also copy and paste the first table and change the details there. Great work. GaseousClay, Eugene Tyson and Wosven 3 Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4
Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Author Posted September 5, 2018 2 minutes ago, Seneca said: As suggestion you once you complete January save the style of this table. Then you can apply this style to subsequent months. Of course you could also copy and paste the first table and change the details there. Great work. Thanks! Yes - I was going to get into the Table Styles but the post was quite long as it is. Table Styles are definitely 100% the way to go! Quote
Oval Posted September 5, 2018 Posted September 5, 2018 Would be useful to have this (also) in Resources. Please, Serif. Eugene Tyson 1 Quote
Eugene Tyson Posted September 5, 2018 Author Posted September 5, 2018 Didn't know there was such a thing! Please do @Patrick Connor if possible! Cheers! Quote
dcarvalho84 Posted November 17, 2018 Posted November 17, 2018 @Eugene Tyson is there any way to have the numbers following by columns and not by row? Thanks Quote
fde101 Posted November 20, 2018 Posted November 20, 2018 This came up on another thread here somewhere but can't find it at the moment... Select each column of the table where numbering is desired. Under "Bullets and Numbering" in the Paragraph panel, select the numbering type, set "Name" to a unique value for each column, and set "Restart numbering" to "Below Current Level". Quote
Alfred Posted March 25, 2019 Posted March 25, 2019 On 9/5/2018 at 11:08 AM, Eugene Tyson said: January 2019 starts on a Tuesday (any calendar will tell you that ) Alternatively, you can use the handy little formula W = k + [ 2.6 m - 0.2 ] - 2 C + Y + [ Y / 4 ] + [ C / 4 ] mod 7 where [] denotes the integer floor function (round down), k is day (1 to 31) m is month (1 = March, ..., 10 = December, 11 = Jan, 12 = Feb) Treat Jan & Feb as months of the preceding year C is century (1987 has C = 19) Y is year (1987 has Y = 87 except Y = 86 for Jan & Feb) W range is [0=Sun,...,6=Sat] This formula is good for the Gregorian calendar (introduced 1582 in parts of Europe, adopted in 1752 in Great Britain and its colonies, and on various dates in other countries). It handles century and 400 year corrections, but there is still a 3 day / 10 thousand year error which the Gregorian calendar does not take into account. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Michael117 Posted March 30, 2019 Posted March 30, 2019 @Eugene Tyson Have you checked out the latest beta version of AF Pub? The table controls have a way to easily add and remove rows and columns. Instead of the box at the end of the column letters and at the bottom of the row numbers, there are a set of up and down arrows that allows you to add or remove the columns and rows. This makes it a ton easier to create the tables. Coming soon (I think) are the anchors that allow you to position a table with a piece of text and the table will flow with the text it's anchored to. Ariana M 1 Quote
Ariana M Posted March 31, 2019 Posted March 31, 2019 awesome @Michael117!! Really looking forward to working on my 2020 planner books. Maybe Publisher will have all the features for me this year, or certainly by 2021 to get my books EXACTLY the way i want them!!! Michael117 1 Quote
Ariana M Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Anybody noticed if there is any updated calendar functionality or anything we can do to make the process easier in Publisher? Quote
Petar Petrenko Posted June 1, 2019 Posted June 1, 2019 Maybe it is easier to create only 7 tables with days 1-31 in a rows (and 7 tables with days in a columns) each table starting on a different day of the week? After that just use the tables you need it and delete the unnecesarry days. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100)
Guest Posted August 18, 2020 Posted August 18, 2020 I am really disappointed to find that within publishing software there is no calendar wizard to easily create and style calendar tables to insert in documents! This is helpful, thanks! But I really wanted my previous months days to show and next months days to show, and for them to have a lower opacity than the current months days, as you see on calendar apps. I thought this could be possible if I linked the table cells, like you link text frames, so the number pattern flowed between linked tables automatically but i don't think it can do that, so I had to just continue to apply the numbered table style and restart the count on the right days for each month and then go back in and manually enter the previous/next months days and give them a separate "lower opacity" style. Is there really no easier way to achieve this? I really hope they add a calendar generator/wizard because this is so time consuming! Quote
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