Changing font in Word 97 Calendar Wizard

[Peter Strauss]

Been going nuts trying to change font size for day of the month
numbers in Word 97 Calendar Wizard.
Tried using the method suggested in Article 119122, but came up
empty-handed; after saving as instructed, got error message:
"requested member of the collection does not exist."
It seems like such a simple thing, but I cannot figure out how to do
this.
What I want is to reduce the size of the numbers so I can write in the
box for any given day. And I'd like to be able to make my calendars
using the Wizard.
I think I did it previously, but I've unfortunately lost the templates
due to changing computers.
I'm using Office 97 Professional, and XP Professional.
Thanks for any help.

Peter

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Peter,

The Calendar Wizard has been largely unchanged since its introduction in Word v6, using stored Autotext entries and styles to 'plug
in' the formatting. The Autotext entries and styles each have the same name.

((Although no longer included with Word 2007 (v12) it is still available for download for Word 2000 or higher through
http://office.microsoft.com/templates ) (it does still work in Word 2007)

The steps in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119122/en-us?FR=1
should work, but it sounds like you may have modified one of the bookmarks or changed an autotext or style name?

Which calendar style name are you using in the Wizard?
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Been going nuts trying to change font size for day of the month
numbers in Word 97 Calendar Wizard.
Tried using the method suggested in Article 119122, but came up
empty-handed; after saving as instructed, got error message:
"requested member of the collection does not exist."
It seems like such a simple thing, but I cannot figure out how to do
this.
What I want is to reduce the size of the numbers so I can write in the
box for any given day. And I'd like to be able to make my calendars
using the Wizard.
I think I did it previously, but I've unfortunately lost the templates
due to changing computers.
I'm using Office 97 Professional, and XP Professional.
Thanks for any help.

Peter>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Peter Strauss]

Hi Peter,

The Calendar Wizard has been largely unchanged since its introduction in Word v6, using stored Autotext entries and styles to 'plug
in' the formatting. The Autotext entries and styles each have the same name.

((Although no longer included with Word 2007 (v12) it is still available for download for Word 2000 or higher through
http://office.microsoft.com/templates ) (it does still work in Word 2007)

The steps in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119122/en-us?FR=1
should work, but it sounds like you may have modified one of the bookmarks or changed an autotext or style name?

Which calendar style name are you using in the Wizard?

I'm using the one with boxes11. The article tells me to change the
formatting as I wish in that autotext entry, then delete the entry,
and then reenter it with the same name after I've changed the
parameters.
I don't know if that's what messed things up or not.
Should I go back to square one, reload in the wizard, and start again?
I have done that a couple of times already.
Can you tell me in what file the fonts are specified? Perhaps I could
modify them there. I did look at the macros, and found no font specs
that I could recognize.

Thanks for responding...I sure hope I can get this worked out.

Peter

 

[Peter Strauss]

Progress report:
I don't know exactly what I did, but I was just able to change the
font and formatting for the month and year boxes on each page.
Amazing.
Now, when I want to change the font size of the dates in each page
from 36 to 14, presumably I need to see the boxes...and I don't know
how to do that. When I select the whole box, I'm told the font size
is 10. I don't know to what that refers, unless it's the days of the
week boxes, and I don't want to change those. It's the big numbers
I'm after.

Thanks again...I think just knowing I had support here made it easier
for me to try again.

Peter

 

[Peter Strauss]

Progress report:
I don't know exactly what I did, but I was just able to change the
font and formatting for the month and year boxes on each page.
Amazing.
Now, when I want to change the font size of the dates in each page
from 36 to 14, presumably I need to see the boxes...and I don't know
how to do that. When I select the whole box, I'm told the font size
is 10. I don't know to what that refers, unless it's the days of the
week boxes, and I don't want to change those. It's the big numbers
I'm after.

Thanks again...I think just knowing I had support here made it easier
for me to try again.

Peter

Bob Buckland, are you still there???
I still can't figure out how to change the font size of the days of the month.
Can you (or any other smart person) help me out, please?
Thanks.

Peter

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Peter,

There are a couple of ways you can do it

Each Month calendar is a table inside of a textbox. What Step 6 in the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119122/en-us?FR=1 is suggesting is that the revised sizing would be part of the text box/table
stored in an Autotext entry, but using Styles should also work.

When you're using the Calendar Wizard it appears that you've selected the Landscape, Boxes and Borders, no picture choices.

That choice stores the default 'Boxes11' Autotext entries and 'Boxes11' Word Styles. As I understand it you have updated the
Autotext entries as needed, but the individual date numbers are too large. The default font size is 36 using Times New Roman font.

If you select, in the Calendar you created , one of the dates (i.e. the 13 in December) and then use
Format=>Styles,
you should see that the currently selected style is
Boxes11. If so, click the modify button and select the type face and the font size you want to use in your calendar. Also select
the 'add to template' choice if you want to have this stay with future calendars.

You can also use Format=>Styles and modify each of the other 'Boxes...' styles to your liking.

Boxes Heading 1
is what's used in the Bordered text at the top and bottom
of each page.
Boxes Heading 2
is the day of the week heading
Boxes01
is the parent style of Boxes11 (making the change in
font size there would also affect Boxes 11).
Boxes00 and Boxes10 are the same as Boxes01 and Boxes11
but used in Portrait calendars by the Wizard.


To Save a calendar as a template File=>Save As=>Document Template. That will save as a .DOT file, and lets you create new copies of
your calendar, but doesn't automatically run the 'Wizad' at the beginning.

To make the same changes to the Calendar Template Wizard , make a copy of the Calendar.wiz file, then open that file through
File=>Open. You'll get a blank document, but you'll have access to all of the Wizard styles in
Format=>Styles.
Make your changes to the styles there then use File=>Save

Close Word, then double click on your revised .wiz file in Windows Explorer and create a test calendar.

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Bob Buckland, are you still there???
I still can't figure out how to change the font size of the days of the month.
Can you (or any other smart person) help me out, please?
Thanks.

Peter>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Peter Strauss]

Hi Peter,

There are a couple of ways you can do it

Each Month calendar is a table inside of a textbox. What Step 6 in the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119122/en-us?FR=1 is suggesting is that the revised sizing would be part of the text box/table
stored in an Autotext entry, but using Styles should also work.

When you're using the Calendar Wizard it appears that you've selected the Landscape, Boxes and Borders, no picture choices.

That choice stores the default 'Boxes11' Autotext entries and 'Boxes11' Word Styles. As I understand it you have updated the
Autotext entries as needed, but the individual date numbers are too large. The default font size is 36 using Times New Roman font.

If you select, in the Calendar you created , one of the dates (i.e. the 13 in December) and then use
Format=>Styles,
you should see that the currently selected style is
Boxes11. If so, click the modify button and select the type face and the font size you want to use in your calendar. Also select
the 'add to template' choice if you want to have this stay with future calendars.

You can also use Format=>Styles and modify each of the other 'Boxes...' styles to your liking.

Boxes Heading 1
is what's used in the Bordered text at the top and bottom
of each page.
Boxes Heading 2
is the day of the week heading
Boxes01
is the parent style of Boxes11 (making the change in
font size there would also affect Boxes 11).
Boxes00 and Boxes10 are the same as Boxes01 and Boxes11
but used in Portrait calendars by the Wizard.


To Save a calendar as a template File=>Save As=>Document Template. That will save as a .DOT file, and lets you create new copies of
your calendar, but doesn't automatically run the 'Wizad' at the beginning.

To make the same changes to the Calendar Template Wizard , make a copy of the Calendar.wiz file, then open that file through
File=>Open. You'll get a blank document, but you'll have access to all of the Wizard styles in
Format=>Styles.
Make your changes to the styles there then use File=>Save

Close Word, then double click on your revised .wiz file in Windows Explorer and create a test calendar.

Oh, mercy, mercy, what a gift you are, Sir Buckland!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The answer to a maiden's prayer! (well, that's a bit excessive, I
suppose...how about an old guy's earnest plea?) **

I just made a copy of the wiz, made that one leedle small change, and
voilà! Just what I wanted.

** I'm reminded of one of my favorite poems by WB Yeats, which, with
(or without, actually) your indulgence, I'll recite some relevant
lines of, here:

"He has had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night."

Thanks again and again,
Peter