Calendar wizard help

[Peter Strauss]

I hope I have the right newsgroup. If not, I would appreciate a steer
to the right one.

My problem:
I'm trying to modify the calendar.wiz file, according to the
instructions from M'Soft.
They direct me to open the calendar.wiz file, save as a different
name, and then modify it.
I do that, and I end up with a renamed .dot template, rather than what
they call my "new wizard."
When I then, following their instructions further, go back and File,
New, Other Documents, <modified .dot file>, I don't, of course, get
the wizard at all. And if I open the wizard, I get the same old
template as I began with, not my modified one.
So: how do I get the wizard to call MY template, and not its?
Further: When I open the .dot to modify it, there are no gridlines
within the calendar block for the day squares, so I cannot modify the
font size of the dates. I'm baffled by that one completely.

Appreciate any help I can get.

Peter Strauss
Oakland CA

 

[Peter Strauss]

I hope I have the right newsgroup. If not, I would appreciate a steer
to the right one.

My problem:
I'm trying to modify the calendar.wiz file, according to the
instructions from M'Soft.
They direct me to open the calendar.wiz file, save as a different
name, and then modify it.
I do that, and I end up with a renamed .dot template, rather than what
they call my "new wizard."
When I then, following their instructions further, go back and File,
New, Other Documents, <modified .dot file>, I don't, of course, get
the wizard at all. And if I open the wizard, I get the same old
template as I began with, not my modified one.
So: how do I get the wizard to call MY template, and not its?
Further: When I open the .dot to modify it, there are no gridlines
within the calendar block for the day squares, so I cannot modify the
font size of the dates. I'm baffled by that one completely.

Appreciate any help I can get.

Peter Strauss
Oakland CA

Pardon me, I forgot completely to say:
I'm using Word97. And the document I got from M'Soft is:
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 119122.

<It's almost 2AM, and I've been puzzling over this for 2 hours now.
That's my excuse for forgetting the above info. Thanks for your
understanding.>

 

[Peter Strauss]

Re: Calendar.wiz, Word97, Win98SE.

Have successfully created an alternate Calendar.wiz, according to
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 119122, which I discovered is named
with .dot, not .wiz, and that's fine. It works.

I have managed to modify the font and boxes for the month and year, so
that feels good.
Baffled still by my inability to find the table, so I can modify the
font sizes therein.
How do I make the table visible? I do have the "show gridlines"
option on in the Table pulldown. And I'm seeing the bookmarks for the
month and year. But that's all.
Help, please, somebody?
Thanks in advance,

Peter Strauss
Oakland CA

 

[Tonya Marshall]

What you need to do is modify the style for the numbers. Run the calendar
wizard you made and go all the way through to the finish so that you have
a calendar page.

Then click in one of the boxes in the table and look up in the style
window. (Mine says Boxes11). In the dropdown box next to the style, scroll
down to Boxes11 (for some reason, in my dropdown list it has BoxesHeading1
highlighted) and highlight it. Then Format/Style. Click Modify/Font.
Choose the font you prefer and the size then OK.

If you would like the number to be left justified rather than centered,
click Modify again/Paragraph/and change the alignment to left. Then OK

If you don't want to change the justification, before you click OK, click
in the box by Add to Template so there's a checkmark in it. Click Apply.

Close the document. It will probably ask if you want to save it. No, you
don't to save the document. But, when it asks if you want to save the
changes to Calendar.dot (or whatever you named it), say yes.
By the way, you sound like you did very well as far as you got.
Tonya Marshall

 

[Tonya Marshall]

If you ever want to alter another Calendar.wiz, you can copy the file to
another place on your harddrive, change the name to YourCalendarName.wiz and
you can retain the wiz extension. Then move it back to the Calendar folder in
your templates.
That's what I did when I altered it a while back.
Tonya Marshall

 

[Peter Strauss]

If you ever want to alter another Calendar.wiz, you can copy the file to
another place on your harddrive, change the name to YourCalendarName.wiz and
you can retain the wiz extension. Then move it back to the Calendar folder in
your templates.
That's what I did when I altered it a while back.
Tonya Marshall

I hadn't thought to change the name back to .wiz, and especially after
you showed up as the real thing! However, thanks for the
suggestion...I now have a couple of different .dot files which of
course function the same way.
And thanks again for your help.
All the best,
Peter