NWA-PCUG 1/99 NewsLetter Article 18861 N. Hwy 112, Springdale, AR 72762-9303 Calendar Creator 5.0 A Software Review by Vinny Labash, Member of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group,Inc. Calendar Creator is the perfect program for a busy person with a packed schedule. The program offers great flexibility and ease-of-use in creating calendars, printing them, and managing your appointments and contacts. Text and graphics can be inserted virtually anywhere on the page. It's even possible to insert a small calendar inside a larger one. With over 5,000 clip art images and the ability to import as many graphics as you like into the program, personalization takes on a whole new meaning. There are enough format controls in the program to customize every square inch of your calendar. You can add pictures, change text size, style and color, create borders, control shading, date ranges and more. You can easily produce a personal calendar that is both professional looking and useful. Installing Calendar Creator is as easy as things can get. Assuming your auto play function is working, simply insert the installation CD-ROM into the disk drive and follow the prompts. As part of the installation procedure, you are offered the opportunity to register your program on- line, a nice time saver. A very effective option is the program's ability to schedule an event multiple times at regular, or irregular intervals. For example, if you play poker on the second and fourth Thursday of each month, Calendar Creator can track it for you. It will even sound an alarm as an audible reminder of important events, as you define them. The alarm feature can play a sound file, launch an application, or print out a message notifying you that unless you leave the house with fifteen minutes, you'll be late for your poker game. The Address Book is versatile, easy-to-use, and works like a real address book, storing business and personal addresses, phone, fax, cellular and pager numbers all in one location. You can group your entries into categories such as My Poker Buddies, Computer Vendors, and Dieters Anonymous. Address Book will also allow you to store E-Mail addresses and Web sites. E-Mail can be sent to any E-Mail address in your list, or direct dial by clicking on a phone number. You can import information into the Address Book if your data is in comma separated variable (CSV) format. All information exported from Address Book is in CSV format. The number of printing options is truly staggering. There are so many options that the program verifies every setting to ensure there are no conflicts before printing anything. If your calendar is too large for your paper, Calendar Creator will prompt you to change your settings. Most calendars can be printed using the default settings. As you become more experienced, you will probably use the print capabilities to produce more sophisticated calendars. Calendar Creator is well suited for tracking individual schedules in a busy office, or multiple schedules for one person. A nice touch is the ability to bring up a master schedule so you can see everything that's going on in your office or family. The program will help you get organized and stay that way. You can find Calendar Creator 5.0 at a street price of $45. The Learning Company, One Athenaeum Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, (423) 670-2020, http://www.learningco.com : Copyright 1998. This article is from the August 1998 issue of the Sarasota PC Monitor, the official monthly publication of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc., P.O. Box 15889, Sarasota, Fl 34277-1889. Permission to reprint is granted only to other non-profit computer user groups, provided proper credit is given to the author and our publication. We would appreciate receiving a copy of the publication the reprint appears in, please send to above address, Attn: Editor. For further information about our group, email: admin@spcug.org/ Web: http://www.spcug.org/ The Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc. has 1,000+ members and was established in 1982. We are members of the Assoc. of PC User Groups (APCUG), the Florida Assoc. of PC Users Groups, Inc., and we are members of the America Online Ambassador Program. See http://www.spcug.org for all reviews from the Sarasota PC Monitor, go to the Newsletter Section.