Advanced Calendar for Excel™ is a Microsoft® Excel macro
that creates a variety of calendars and planners.
This section provide you with the following Step by Step
procedures:
- How to Start Advanced Calendar for Excel
- How to Merge a Database to a Monthly Calendar
Step 1 - Start Advanced Calendar for Excel
A- From the Start
button, select the All Program and then select the
Advanced Calendar for Excel folder.

B- Double click on the file
name Advanced Calendar for Excel.
C- Once the file is open,
select the Calendar option from the Tools menu.
Step 2 - Prepare the Database
Please do the following:
A. Open the Excel workbook
with the database stored in one worksheet
The data should have three columns with the following data

This example is stored in the DB_Case_02.XLS
B. Identify the column
name that these information are stored. MS excel normally
displays the column name (for example A, B...)
- Date Column C
- Line 1 Column A
- Line 2 Column B
Please enter C: in 2.1 otherwise you will get
an error.
C. Enter the column name
in the Advanced Calendar for Excel Setup sheet Step 1 entry
form as shown below.
Note: Make sure you have selected the [1] The
column contains only DATE option in the pull down menu in 3.2


D. Click the "[1] Build
Calendar DB file from Data Worksheet
file button.
E. Open the DB_Case_02.XLS
file in the C:\Program Files\BaRaN Systems LLC\Advanced Calendar
for Excel folder.
Note: If the file is already open you will
receive a warning message. You must select the YES button to
proceed.
F. Review the newly created
file. This format is refereed as Calendar
DB.

Please note that the empty date cells are translated to 0 of
January 1900 (or date Zero in MS definition) and empty name
cells show value of Zero ( 0 ).
The zero display can be fixed by un-checking the Zero values
option. Please choose Option from the Tools menu and
then select the View tab.
Please note that the Calendar DB cell has the value of
Book4 which the name of the newly created workbook.

If you would like, you can save and close the workbook and then
click the "[2b] Browse and Open the DB.." button to re-open
it.
G. Make sure you enter the
following data in Step 3 of the Setup Worksheet.

Click the "[3] Build a Calendar from
Calendar DB file" button.

Click the OK button.

The Requested Calendar is generated and clicking on the button
can expand the calendar into different views.
In the above example, you might want to see the NAME and JOB be
displayed in two rows.

Make sure you enter 1 for the
value of the 1.2 Use LINEFEED .. and run the program again.

The column width is very important. You can set the column width
to a prefix value such as 19 by entering the value of 19 in the 1.2
Column width field.
