QuarkXPress: Tips and Tricks

Re: creating a calendar in quark 7

artdept_get noticed — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:05:08 GMT

This worked - AMAZING!! Thanks so much!

(It's one full month per page)

Re: creating a calendar in quark 7

ampegg66 — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:15 GMT

Or, if each page has a whole month:

You probably already have a grid built for each month. It should be 6 weeks of 7 days each to fit all possible date combinations.

You probably also already have boxes to contain the dates, one for each day of the month. Make sure there's one for every day on the grid, even for days that may not have a date in that particular month.

Starting with the top left box, link all those boxes together in order (option-click the linking tool so it sticks, then click on each successive box through the whole month). You'll see arrows connecting all the boxes together (you'll want your guides turned on for this part).

Enter "1" in the first text box, then hit the "Enter" key on the numeric keypad (not the "Return" key) to move to the next empty box. Enter the remaining numbers 2-31, each in its own successive box.

Place your cursor before the "1" in the first box. Hit the "Enter" key until the 1 is on the correct day. This will move all the other numbers forward as well.

Next year, if you need to move the "1" backwards, place your cursor before the "1" and hit the "Delete" key until the 1 is on the correct day.

Once you've built that first month and it's working like it's supposed to, you could group the whole page, then copy and paste it onto the other 11 month pages. Or, you could group just the newly linked date text boxes, then copy and paste that into the remaining months. So you really only have to build the "linked text boxes" part once.

This would also work if all your months are on a single page, like a poster. Just build one month, then copy and paste it for the remaining months.

Re: creating a calendar in quark 7

migman — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:15:00 GMT

Is this a 365-page calendar where each page is a day of the year? If so, I'd suggest you use a non-facing (single) master, and an automatic page number character (the one you are thinking of that looks like <#> on the master page), and set section starts at the pages where the new month starts (like a section start at page 32 that restarts at 1). The section control is in the Page menu.

creating a calendar in quark 7

artdept_get noticed — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:24:19 GMT

My company prints yearly calendars for a school. Naturally, each year, the months need to be renumbered. Currently, we use the painful delete and retype method. As far as I can understand, the <#> page numbering tool only works with one text box per page. I would like to be able to simply tell each page in which box to start numbering and have all linked boxes automatically update. This would be a MAJOR help!

Suggestions?

Thanks