Anyone who has followed the previous posts will know that it is time that waves go out to the surface since, earlier this month, I planned this Perpetual Calendar project according to the 5 elements to improve the User Experience - UX, we've seen on this blog:
Viewing this video you will see that a part of what has been achieved in this calendar has been done without the use of Excel macros knowing that can reach a wider audience, but if that was used all the power of Conditional Formatting - CF of Excel 2010 to make it more useful and striking, I hope I have achieved...
Something very important, that a software programmer should always keep in mind, is the internacionalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) of any software application, which is to say flatly that must be prepared to change easely the user's Native Language Support - NLS. To do this, all calendar cells contains date format, applying the appropriate mask turn into days of the week as Monday or Sunday, or months, like January or December, with the advantage of opening the calendar template in one language, the names of the days of the week or the names of the months of the year appear in that language, either in English, Spanish or Croatian. You only need to change the names of the worksheets and the titles, notes and tags to the user language to have the calendar in his language.
It is easy to test by changing the operating system locale in Windows click Start, Control Panel, click Regional and Language and Regional Options, selecting Croatian language. Now, when you open the Perpetual Calendar, the dates will be in that language. What you don't believe that? Look for yourself:
And the same with the sheets of each month, the mini-calendar and the events, holidays and diary dates. By the way, the Easter Week calculation and another celebration's dates have been included for some countries.
If you like it, you can download this Perpetual Calendar in Excel 2007 from here:
or from this template link: Perpetual Calendar in Excel 2010
I've only shown the tip of the iceberg but, to spill the entire project to the surface, you should analyze by yourself the Excel formats and functions used to make this calendar. I hope it reaches many years or may become a perpetual one...
I know there are many things to improve but why do not you comment about it here?
How to change the fill and text color of the events and diary entries?
I explain in the next video how to change events' colors (dark green) only for Cal sheet:
Now is easy for you to change diary colors (dark blue) in all other sheets (12 months and Mini).
- Strategy to follow here
- Scope intended here
- Structure used here
- Skeleton suggested here
- Surface recursive here
Viewing this video you will see that a part of what has been achieved in this calendar has been done without the use of Excel macros knowing that can reach a wider audience, but if that was used all the power of Conditional Formatting - CF of Excel 2010 to make it more useful and striking, I hope I have achieved...
Something very important, that a software programmer should always keep in mind, is the internacionalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) of any software application, which is to say flatly that must be prepared to change easely the user's Native Language Support - NLS. To do this, all calendar cells contains date format, applying the appropriate mask turn into days of the week as Monday or Sunday, or months, like January or December, with the advantage of opening the calendar template in one language, the names of the days of the week or the names of the months of the year appear in that language, either in English, Spanish or Croatian. You only need to change the names of the worksheets and the titles, notes and tags to the user language to have the calendar in his language.
It is easy to test by changing the operating system locale in Windows click Start, Control Panel, click Regional and Language and Regional Options, selecting Croatian language. Now, when you open the Perpetual Calendar, the dates will be in that language. What you don't believe that? Look for yourself:
And the same with the sheets of each month, the mini-calendar and the events, holidays and diary dates. By the way, the Easter Week calculation and another celebration's dates have been included for some countries.
If you like it, you can download this Perpetual Calendar in Excel 2007 from here:
or from this template link: Perpetual Calendar in Excel 2010
I've only shown the tip of the iceberg but, to spill the entire project to the surface, you should analyze by yourself the Excel formats and functions used to make this calendar. I hope it reaches many years or may become a perpetual one...
I know there are many things to improve but why do not you comment about it here?
How to change the fill and text color of the events and diary entries?
I explain in the next video how to change events' colors (dark green) only for Cal sheet:
Now is easy for you to change diary colors (dark blue) in all other sheets (12 months and Mini).
Traducción al español aquí.














