Calendar Start Days again

[Steve Shadbolt]

There are many postings on the internet of people wanting to start Calendars
on days other than Sunday. The advice, for Publisher 2003, is invariably to
change your PCs regional settings. e.g. changing the language setting from
"English (US)" to "English (UK)" is supposed to change the start day of
Publisher Calendars from Sunday to Monday. Even Microsoft's own articles
say to do this e.g. see "Change dates on a calendar" under "Assistance,
Publisher 2003, Work Essentials with Publisher" at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP011543011033.aspx.

This is exactly what I want to do. However, it doesn't work. Whatever
language setting I use, a newly created Calendar ALWAYS starts on a Sunday.
Even after a reboot.

O/S is XP SP2, Publisher is 2003 (11.5525.6568). Any help greatly
appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Oziebill]

Try English (Australia) - Publisher (incorrectly) starts the week on Monday.

HTH


: There are many postings on the internet of people wanting to start
Calendars
: on days other than Sunday. The advice, for Publisher 2003, is invariably
to
: change your PCs regional settings. e.g. changing the language setting
from
: "English (US)" to "English (UK)" is supposed to change the start day of
: Publisher Calendars from Sunday to Monday. Even Microsoft's own articles
: say to do this e.g. see "Change dates on a calendar" under "Assistance,
: Publisher 2003, Work Essentials with Publisher" at
: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP011543011033.aspx.
:
: This is exactly what I want to do. However, it doesn't work. Whatever
: language setting I use, a newly created Calendar ALWAYS starts on a
Sunday.
: Even after a reboot.
:
: O/S is XP SP2, Publisher is 2003 (11.5525.6568). Any help greatly
: appreciated.
:
: Thanks
:
:

 

[Steve Shadbolt]

Thanks Oziebill - I tried your suggestion, but it made no difference. Still
starts on a Sunday.

Steve

 

[Ed Bennett]

Whatever language setting I use,

Can you walk us through the process you are using to change the option, so
we can work out whether you're changing the correct option?

Thanks,

 

[Steve Shadbolt]

Hi Ed,

I Have followed the instructions found at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP011543011033.aspx for Windows
XP.

i.e.
From Control Panel, choose "Regional and language Options".
Click "Regional Options" tab
Under "Standards & formats" choose "English (United Kingdom)" from the
dropdown list.
Click the "Apply" button.
Click the "OK" button.

Open Publisher
In the "New Publication" area, choose "Publications for
print->Calendars->Full Page"
Choose any Calendar (e.g. "Understated") and it still starts the week on a
Sunday.

Hope this helps,

Thanks and regards,

Steve

 

[Mary Sauer]

The template site on the Office web site has Monday starting calendars, all of
them are 2005. If you change the range of dates, the calendars revert to Sunday.
A lot of help that is!!!

 

[Steve Shadbolt]

In case it is useful, I have checked the value of the registry setting
\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\iFirstDayOfWeek, which
always seems to be set to 0, whatever the language setting. Manually
changing this value (with Regedit or similar) has no influence over
Publisher's Calendar start day.

Steve

 

[Steve Shadbolt]

I have read that Publisher 2003 SP1 might help with this problem. I have
searched the Microsoft downloads for this but can only find SPs integrated
with the rest of Office. I already have Office SP2 done by an
administrative upgrade prior to installing Publisher so would really prefer
to use the standalone Publisher Service Pack.

Does anybody know :

1) If SP1 will really make any difference to the Calendar problem ?
2) Where I can get a standalone Publisher 2003 SP1 from ?

Thanks,

Steve.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't think there is a Publisher specific service pack.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=publisher&DisplayLang=en
I put a Monday calendar on my web site, It is no frills. You will have to add
graphics and such.
http://msauer.mvps.org/publisher_projects2.htm

 

[Ed Bennett]

1) If SP1 will really make any difference to the Calendar problem ?
2) Where I can get a standalone Publisher 2003 SP1 from ?

I haven't done it myself, but everyone who has reported using it for this
problem has reported that it works.

SP2 supercedes (and includes all the improvements in) SP1.

Reinstalling SP2 should update Publisher.

 

[Steve Shadbolt]

Hi Ed,

I can confirm that it works. On XP Pro SP2, application of Office 2003 SP2
upgrades publisher such that Calendar start days are dependent on the
Language setting for the PC.

Thanks for your help, and all other respondents.

Steve.