974 Chapter 31 Create Colorful Cards and Calendars
Creating Calendars
Although various technologies are now available to track appointments and schedules
electronically, many people still prefer to use printed calendars to keep them organized
and on time. Calendars can be an excellent promotional item because they keep your
information in front of the recipient for the entire calendar period. You can include infor-
mation about promotions and events, or if you create a calendar for friends and family
members, you can include information about personal events such as birthdays. You can
use Publisher to create a calendar for a single month, for a range of months, or for an
entire year. Various designs are available in full-page or wallet sizes, or you can build a
custom-sized calendar from a blank publication.
After you choose a calendar template from the New page of the Backstage view, you
can specify whether each calendar page displays a month or a year, and which months
or years the calendar includes. (If you don’t select a year, Publisher creates a calendar
for the current year.) Publisher creates a calendar consisting of one page specific to each
month or year in the selected range. For example, setting a starting month of January
and an ending month of June of the same year produces a six-page publication. You
can also add a Schedule Of Events section, which is a text box next to the calendar grid
on each page in which you can insert information, by selecting the Include Schedule Of
Events check box at the bottom of the Customize pane before you create the calendar.
You can change the Schedule Of Events text box header to represent information other
than events.
Tip You can insert a one-month calendar object from the Building Blocks Library into any
type of publication. For information, see “Working with Ready-Made Visual Elements” in
Chapter 30, “Create Visual Interest.”Adding Captions, Credits, and Copyrights
Some calendar templates include placeholders for photographs or other artwork. If
you are creating a calendar for distribution to other people and you select one of these
templates, think carefully about the ownership of the artwork you plan on using. If you
insert your own photographs, do you want to indicate ownership in some way? If you
plan to use artwork created by other people, do you have the right to distribute those
materials without infringing on the owner’s rights?
Many people assume that if a graphic is available on the Web, it is part of the public
domain. However, it is wise to err on the side of caution whenever you use artwork in
your publications, unless you know it is not protected by a copyright. For example, the