Use the Calendar Wizard in Microsoft Office Word 2002
How-to article
Do you want to organize your classroom activities more efficiently, but find that your desk calendar is crowded with erasures, last-minute changes, and sticky notes? Do you want to help your students organize their class work so they complete assignments on time?
Use the Calendar Wizard in Microsoft Office Word 2002 to create easy-to-read and easy-to–change monthly calendars that display your classroom activities, lessons, and projects. You can create a September calendar that shows special events for the first month of school, for example, or calendars that younger students can use to learn the days and months of the year, as well as special holidays. Older students can create their own calendars to keep track of due dates for projects and reports.
The possibilities are endless. Some curriculum-related calendars include "This Day in History," temperature or weather calendars (daily, weekly, or monthly logs), weekly spelling words, and vocabulary challenges for each week of a month.
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Lesson information
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Instructional level | | • | Intermediate user | | • | Advanced user |
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School level | | • | Elementary school (Grade 2 and up) | | • | Middle school (11–15 years) | | • | High school (14–18 years) |
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Curriculum areas | | • | Behavioral and social studies | | • | Science | | • | Language arts | | • | Mathematics | | • | Technology | | • | Work skills |
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Software required | Microsoft Office Word 2002 |
Objective
Use the Calendar Wizard in Microsoft Office Word 2002 to create monthly calendars. Here's how:
Create a calendar
1. | Create a spreadsheet and a chart to represent the data in the spreadsheet. Next, select the chart, and then copy and paste it into a slide within a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation. |
2. | Start Microsoft Office Word 2002, and then from the File menu, select New. |
3. | In the New from template section, click General Templates, and then click the Other Documents tab. |
4. | Double-click the Calendar Wizard to get started. Click Next to begin. 
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5. | Select a style for your calendar from the three choices (Boxes & borders, Banner, or Jazzy), and then click Next. |
6. | Select whether you would like to print your calendar in Portrait (tall) or Landscape (sideways), and then decide whether you want to leave room for a picture (Yes or No). Click Next to continue. |
7. | Finally, select the starting and ending months for your calendar(s). Click Next. |
8. | Click Finish to see your new calendar(s). |
Tip: 
To view a whole page, first from the View menu, select Print Layout, and then from the Zoom box (at the right end of the Standard toolbar), select Whole Page. If you created more than one monthly calendar, scroll to see the other calendars.
More ideas for customizing your calendars
| • | Add pictures to your calendar, even within a specific day. Resize them so they fit just where they are needed. |
| • | Try typing your own text within a day of a calendar. A text box (the Text Box tool is found on the Drawing toolbar) works well in this situation because it lets you put text anywhere on the calendar. |
Tip: Turn off the line around the text box if you just want to see the text. To do this, on the Drawing toolbar, click the arrow next to the Line Color button, and then click No Line.
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