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WinCalendar by Sapro Systems simplifies the process of making calendars in Word and Excel. Working inside these Microsoft programs, WinCalendar also expands your options. Its templates and automated features generate colorful, flexible calendars for planning, notekeeping, and many other uses. It tracks holidays and much more; at least, the full version does. The free trial is intended as a demo of WinCalendar's capabilities, not as fully functional freeware, and the trial version limits several features, including holidays, calendar size, and format, and it places a watermark on saved calendars. Its comprehensive Help file and a wizard-based calendar maker do a respectable job of introducing this shareware Office add-on, though.
You'll have to close and reopen Word or Excel if they're open when installing WinCalendar. Our installation finished with the Help file's "How Do I?" page of quick links to all major topics. WinCalendar's controls showed up on Word's ribbon (Excel's, too). Aside from Register, About, and Help buttons, it only has two controls: Show WinCalendar and Calendar Maker. We started the Calendar Maker. This wizard-like tool offered lots of choices, starting with a menu of templates in the Type & Date Range field: weekly, monthly, yearly, schedule, and agenda; as well as Data & Format, Size & Orientation, and Options. When we tried accessing features disabled in the free trial, a nag message popped up. But we were able to make basic selections and preview them. Our finished product appeared in a new Word document. It was attractive and professional in execution, as good as any we'd seen. The watermark is large but faint, and major holidays were indicated in red (you can't customize them in the free trial). We could enter and save data like any calendar made in Word or Excel. WinCalendar worked equally well in both Office applications, with similar options and results.
About the Show WinCalendar button: clicking it produces a neat little desktop calendar with some interesting tricks; for example, clicking any highlighted date copies the day and date (in your format) into Word or Excel. Bottom line: The trial limits didn't obscure WinCalendar's capabilities.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of WinCalendar 3.43.
Publisher's Description
From Sapro Systems:
WinCalendar is both a desktop calendar and calendar maker that creates printable calendars in both Microsoft Word and Excel formats. The calendar creator now supports over 100 different calendar layouts combinations. You can import appointment data from Outlook, Google Calendar & Yahoo Calendar. You can even save daily appointments in the pop-up calendar that display on created calendars. WinCalendar can also be used as a graphical fertility calculator and ovulation predictor. WinCalendar is toolbar and menu driven so there is no template to load and manage. WinCalendar is ideal for use in planning and scheduling. It even supports a Gantt Chart timeline layout. The desktop pop-up calendar / date picker works both as a stand-alone Windows Calendar and also as a integrated date picker in Microsoft Word and Excel. The pop-up calendar & date picker feature is now Free as part of WinCalendar.
See WinCalendar.exe to run as a stand alone desktop calendar. See WinCalendar menu within Excel & Word for Calendar Maker features.
What's new in this version: Version 4.08:
- Contains a fix for mis-matching Calendar Sheet names for some layouts in Excel.
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"For Advanced Calendar Printing"
Version: WinCalendar 4.06
Pros
i can edit calendar as Excel doc
i can Edit calendar font and style
i can use custom paper sizeCons
it does not store repeating events - but it does import them from Google Calendar
Summary
good for advanced calendar editing and printing.
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"Fine, until you want to uninstall"
Version: WinCalendar 3.48
Pros
The install was easy
Cons
I can't remove it. When you run the uninstall it leave files everywhere, including within the registry. It is impossible to get rid of and now every time I open Excel I receive an error message. I am pretty computer literate but even my IT department is having a hard time removing all the tentacles this program has left behind.
Summary
Don't do it....unless you are certain that you will never want to uninstall it.
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"So far great!"
Version: WinCalendar 3.48
Pros
Not sure, will keep in touch.
Cons
Not sure, will keep in touch.
Summary
I will update my review when I have more time to use WinCalender. thank you!
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"Awesome, easy to use calendar"
Version: WinCalendar 3.48
Pros
I love this calendar on my windows desktop because it's so easy to access and I use it a lot when I am in a rush and need a good in depth calendar. It loads really quickly and offers everything I need.
Cons
None, it does the job for me.
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"A cool work around for creating DIY Pocket Calendars"
Version: WinCalendar 3.46
Pros
I was upset that Google has very limited options for formatting and printing out their calendars.
WinCalendar allows me to import my info right into Excel and format it just the way I want. Now I can keep my online calendar AND print out a paper version to carry with me and make appointments.Cons
This software does cost money to get the features I want. However, I'm starting to get more excited about paying developers to keep on creating products like this.
Summary
A nice tool to add to the kit for creating an integrated online-pocket scheduling tool.
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"Microsoft Word Compatible Calendar"
Version: WinCalendar 3.46
Pros
-I can edit my Outlook calendar in Word
-Supports many layouts
-very easy to customizeCons
MS Word can be tricky to edit
Summary
Works well for editing Outlook Calendar as Word document
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"Only way to make a fully customizable event Calendar"
Version: WinCalendar 3.46
Pros
I can import multiple calendars from Google and edit them in Excel. i can tweak format and edit like any Excel file till i get the exact format i need. i can add pictures too :-)
Cons
its not free.
Summary
the only way i could find to create a very specific formatted calendar using Google Calendar data
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"Misleading download"
Version: WinCalendar 3.43
Pros
None. None. Oh yes, and NONE. Have I met the 10 character minimum yet?
Cons
Unless you actually read the fine-print, you won't know that by downloading this program you can't actually edit anything unless you purchase first. So you go through the entire process of installing a new product only to learn that you can't do squat with it. WASTE OF TIME!
Summary
It would be nice if CNET actually made an effort to show whether a download was in fact free and didn't lead their users blindly. I don't appreciate wasting my time.
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"I can edit & format Google calendar in Word AND Excel"
Version: WinCalendar 3.43
Pros
I can edit and format my calendars like any Word/Excel file. I can finally format my newsletter calendars to my EXACT needs.
Cons
Any appointments i add to calendars in Word are not saved for future calendars. I need to add the appointments to Outlook/Google Calendar for data to be re-useble.
Summary
Great for custom calendar creation and editing! Also included pop-up calendar works great for picking dates in Word.
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"exasperating!"
Version: WinCalendar 3.42
Pros
I can do a minimal amount on this but I did not need the minimal.
Cons
I really needed a simple solution for my Blood Pressure, Sugar Level and weight. After 2 days I finally gave up. This was not the solution for me!making a calender to record
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