This video was incredibly useful. A cool trick I used after learning this is to make 8 columns instead of 4. Then I removed the lines in the 5th column that would be between Wednesday and Thursday and made it more narrow. That way it's one continuous chart and I could write in the numbers and hit tab to fill each one in without having to click between charts. I could also format the entire calendar at once if needed. :)
Very useful video, thank you so much. Do you perhaps know how to set the pages so when I print it as a book, I can see the pages side by side? I saw your comments about binder but it is easier for binder because you can cut it in half. For book setting I don't understand how to do it. Please help if you can. Thank you so much
The equivalent size of "letter" is "A4". A5 is half of an A4 and a A3 is double size of a A4. Thanks for your videos. They are really really helpful and very well made. Keep up the good work. Ciao.
A letter and A4 are not the same thing but it is true that A5 is half an A4 and A3 is double an A4. However A4 is 8.3 by 11.7 inches and is the standard paper used in most countries but in North America we use what is called letter size as our standard paper and it is 8.5 by 11 inches.
Thank you for the tutorial it was very helpful and well explained. There is however a slight confusion with paper sizes, A5 (5.83 in by 8.27 in) is about half the size of the US letter size (8.5 in by 11 in). A4 (8.27 in by 11.69 in) is closer to US letter size and to double up you could use A3 in landscape (11.69 in by 16.54)
Absolutely Fabulous! Thanks so much. I've been designing in Word and am looking into In Design...amazing how simple you made this look. Greatly appreciated.
Hi I have just found your videos you explain everything in such an easy way for us newbies to understand and just made my life that much easier 😀But I have one question I am in the process of creating planner pages e.g. 5 double pages is there a way to save all the pages in one go as I have been saving them one by one . Then creating pdf one by one also. Is there an easier way of doing this. TIA
How would I get the planner pages that I designed professionally printed out into an actual planner? I want it to be hard covered. Where would I need to go?
Fantastic Tutorial :) Just a quick question, can you set the length of an individual stroke, for example i want to set a stroke of 38mm in length and 28 in height. Thank you :)
How do i create one of these that are editable in adobe acrobat? Where I can add my own dates, fonts, colors in adobe acrobat? No one seems to be covering this. Thanks
Hi Nicki, Thank you kindly for this tutorial. It was great and worked perfectly. I built a very nice looking calendar, made two versions (one with 6 weeks and one with 5 weeks). I saved them into a folder on my computer and today when I opened the files there is a blank page. I know there is information there because my links pallet shows that two images that I placed onto the calendars are there, but they're not showing either. Did I do something wrong? Do you have any idea why my canvas is showing up blank? I have never encountered this type of problem before. I did build the calendars onto master pages if that makes a difference. They're not showing on the master pages either. Please respond with any helpful information.
That's an odd issue and a bit hard to troubleshoot without seeing it. My first suggestion is to try to save as a PDF and see if the graphics appear there. I have had a rare occasion where my InDesign file is corrupted and loses the design.
Thank you so much for responding. Yes it is an unusual file. So strange, I was able to open the file just fine and the links showed up in the links pallet, but a total blank inDesign spread. I actually re-worked the tables and did many tests to try and figure out what it was that I did wrong. All of my tests had good results, so I guess it was a glitch in the file I was working on yesterday, or maybe I wasn't holding my mouth right... lol. I guess it was just one of those undiscovered mysteries that I'll never figure out. Have an awesome day :)
What if instead of the numbers on the calendar, I just wanted it to be a small shaded area (for example, like in the "BEST SELF" journal)? I want the shaded area to be where I manually write the number. I'm thinking of making a blank/undated calendar...Also, how do you make multiple calendars on a page? Do you just make multiple tables and align them accordingly?
Instead of numbers you can place a shaded box filled with the color you like and drop the opacity down. To make multiple calendars, make the main one and then you can easily select everything and copy and paste it to make more.
For legibility purposes, you want to go no less than 10pt. The font you choose will also determine how small you can go. Some fonts are still legible at smaller point sizes. The document size doesn't affect the appropriate font size.
Hi Jennifer! Thanks for watching! Unfortunately, I don't know of an automated way to add numbers for a calendar because it changes month to month. That doesn't mean a method doesn't exist though! I've always entered it in manually.
Thank you for the tutorial! I'm brand new to InDesign, specifically for the purpose of setting up my own therapist binder! Is there a way to set this up so that I can print on 8 1/2x11 paper (vs 17x11), and still have the month across 2 pages when I open it up?
Thanks Angelica. I'm assuming when you say binder that you want to have 8.5 x 11 on one side and another on the other side. That means you have 2, 8.5x11 sheets for one full month. You can definitely format it in the same way as an 11x17 with half your calendar on one sheet and the other half on the other. You'll be working with 2 pages instead of one landscape folded in half. To make it easier to see the calendar spread, I would start with 3 pages to your InDesign document, ignoring the first and then start your calendar spreads below that on pages 2 and 3. That way you see them side by side instead of split up.
i learned so many tricks watching the video like using alt+shift to duplicate. and coming to the end of the table and pressing shift and distributing rows and columns spaces equally and many more of those. why don't you post a video on shortcuts used in indesign. it will be lifesaver. i have seen many indesign videos. but this one was a life saver i should say. thank u so much. keep posting useful videos.
Latoya Morris I would leave a little more room on the left sides of each for holes. That just means you would make the boxes a bit narrower. You can always run a test print and measure to know how much space you need.
I did everything step by step. I am wanting to do an A5 planner. When it printed it came out too big. Do I need to change it to A5 or start with an A5 document. Tabloid is too big. I’m not sure where I messed up.
What size paper are you printing on? If you are printing an A5 doc then your dimensions need to match this to print properly. They may be different than the dimensions I use in the video.
Can you use formulas for the dates? Like on your weekly page, would you have to make a new file for each week, or could you use a formula like in MS Excel. I know virtually nothing about InDesign so maybe that's not even possible
Formulas like in Excel aren't native to InDesign. There could be a couple workarounds with the Calendar Wizard and or a script that would help automate that content. I don't use anything like that, unfortunately.
Design Like a Pro thanks for the reply. I’ve been doing some more research since I haven’t used indesign before. Sure would be nice if you could use formulas! ;-) Great video. Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering how I would go about making a week on 2 pages spread? Would it be the same concept? Also I will be making my monthly planner pages using this. I am still learning how to do this kind of stuff.
The key is knowing how you want the table to lay out with your weeks and days. For example, do you want one week per spread with days of the week going down the left in rows so there is more room for text across the page? You could also put 4 rows on one side and 4 on the other with the days of the week in larger spaces and end with a notes box. Lots of options. I would do a quick online search for weekly planners to see all the various layout ideas. Then break down that layout into a table.
The document in the tutorial is setup on one page that you would cut in half. It helps with design on both sides when you can see it side by side. However, you could design a planner with 8.5x11 sheets and design the left on one page and the right on the other page. Then you can print them out. Your printer can also print the pages and cut them in half or print each page separate. Totally up to you. If you want to have these pages double-sided, I would design them on their own page. It makes it easier for your printer.
Design Like a Pro excellent, because I definitely want to print on both sides since I'll be making a personal planner for both personal and homeschooling use. Thank you so much! This helps me out so much and is super easy to follow.
Design Like a Pro last question. Since I will most likely be having separate pages would I need to save each one individually or can I create all my pages in one document and then export? Thank you
I usually export my initial print file in one PDF from InDesign and then use Acrobat to extract each page as it's own PDF. I do this a lot for publication printing as printers usually want each page as it's own PDF.
i have questions, im am struggling with the table, i did one and i want to make other one in the nest page with a different table color, but when i change the color all the table changes with it, i hope u understand my question and answer ASAP
U know this old but have a quick question, I have cs6 when when I do a table I have to have a text box but you didnt first, you hit new table then drawl ya text box is that only in cc ot can I do in cs6 ax well. Cuz having trouble when I make a table it dont go all way to bottom I'm having trouble resizing it to fit my page i want thanks.
Yes, my table technique is CC only. You can still draw your text box and then add rows to fill the space you have. CC greatly improves working with InDesign tables by the way.
I am struggling with exporting to pdf. I need to get two A6 pages on one LETTER size sheet with crop marks and all. Every time I export it export super strange.
Hi, I'm unable to print this. I converted it to a PDF but still have no luck! Could you give specific directions on how to print the 11x17 size? Thanks!
When you say you are unable to print, can you be more specific? Does the printer you are printing to print to 11x17? Most standard desktop inkjets do not and only a few copy machines can. What happens when you save the PDF? Does it look the way it does when you designed it?
I'm trying to print onto a 2 page spread for a binder. Will this work for that? It does look the same as a pdf in Acrobat. I saw the comments below to extract it in 2 pages in Acrobat but I can't figure out how to do that.
If you want to side by side pages in a binder, I would create an 8.5x11 page for each side instead of creating it across one 11x17 page. That will make it easier to print. The steps are the same, you would just design one side of the calendar on one page and the other side on the other. To get a spread in InDesign you would need to have at 3 pages in the document so that page 2 & 3 are side by side. It makes it easier to design that way.
For some reason after I add in the days of the week at the top, InDesign won't let me choose to add a table. All the options in the Table field are greyed out and I'm not able to select them. Am I doing something wrong?
You should be able to select the table by clicking anywhere on it once. If you double-click you will most likely end up in a cell. You can also double click into a a cell and click and drag to highlight all the cells. It depends on what you want to edit. What version of InDesign are you using? Versions older than CC have a more difficult table editing process.
The ENTIRE calendar page could be done in tables, much more accurate, much more precise and much easier. Could have been more editable if only tables had been used properly.
This video was incredibly useful. A cool trick I used after learning this is to make 8 columns instead of 4. Then I removed the lines in the 5th column that would be between Wednesday and Thursday and made it more narrow. That way it's one continuous chart and I could write in the numbers and hit tab to fill each one in without having to click between charts. I could also format the entire calendar at once if needed. :)
Really like hearing how you adapted this to your own needs. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for your generous teaching.
Very useful video, thank you so much. Do you perhaps know how to set the pages so when I print it as a book, I can see the pages side by side? I saw your comments about binder but it is easier for binder because you can cut it in half. For book setting I don't understand how to do it. Please help if you can. Thank you so much
The equivalent size of "letter" is "A4". A5 is half of an A4 and a A3 is double size of a A4. Thanks for your videos. They are really really helpful and very well made. Keep up the good work. Ciao.
Mauro Corbani Thank you!
A letter and A4 are not the same thing but it is true that A5 is half an A4 and A3 is double an A4. However A4 is 8.3 by 11.7 inches and is the standard paper used in most countries but in North America we use what is called letter size as our standard paper and it is 8.5 by 11 inches.
Thank you for the tutorial it was very helpful and well explained.
There is however a slight confusion with paper sizes,
A5 (5.83 in by 8.27 in) is about half the size of the US letter size (8.5 in by 11 in).
A4 (8.27 in by 11.69 in) is closer to US letter size and to double up you could use A3 in landscape (11.69 in by 16.54)
I was really struggling until I found this video! Super helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely Fabulous! Thanks so much. I've been designing in Word and am looking into In Design...amazing how simple you made this look. Greatly appreciated.
You're in for a real treat making the move to InDesign. It's such a powerful tool once you get the basics down. Thanks for watching :)
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Hi I have just found your videos you explain everything in such an easy way for us newbies to understand and just made my life that much easier 😀But I have one question I am in the process of creating planner pages e.g. 5 double pages is there a way to save all the pages in one go as I have been saving them one by one . Then creating pdf one by one also. Is there an easier way of doing this. TIA
How would I get the planner pages that I designed professionally printed out into an actual planner? I want it to be hard covered. Where would I need to go?
Nicki - I need to add a day countdown in addition to the date in the cells on my monthly calendar - can I do that easily in Indesign
Excellent video! Today was my first day in indesign and I love it!! This was a great help.
Super, thanks for watching!
Fantastic Tutorial :) Just a quick question, can you set the length of an individual stroke, for example i want to set a stroke of 38mm in length and 28 in height. Thank you :)
How do i create one of these that are editable in adobe acrobat? Where I can add my own dates, fonts, colors in adobe acrobat? No one seems to be covering this. Thanks
great video, but now .. how do you print this 1 layout to be on 2 sheets of paper? please explain.
Hi Nicki,
Thank you kindly for this tutorial. It was great and worked perfectly.
I built a very nice looking calendar, made two versions (one with 6 weeks and one with 5 weeks). I saved them into a folder on my computer and today when I opened the files there is a blank page. I know there is information there because my links pallet shows that two images that I placed onto the calendars are there, but they're not showing either.
Did I do something wrong? Do you have any idea why my canvas is showing up blank?
I have never encountered this type of problem before.
I did build the calendars onto master pages if that makes a difference. They're not showing on the master pages either.
Please respond with any helpful information.
That's an odd issue and a bit hard to troubleshoot without seeing it. My first suggestion is to try to save as a PDF and see if the graphics appear there. I have had a rare occasion where my InDesign file is corrupted and loses the design.
Thank you so much for responding. Yes it is an unusual file. So strange, I was able to open the file just fine and the links showed up in the links pallet, but a total blank inDesign spread. I actually re-worked the tables and did many tests to try and figure out what it was that I did wrong. All of my tests had good results, so I guess it was a glitch in the file I was working on yesterday, or maybe I wasn't holding my mouth right... lol. I guess it was just one of those undiscovered mysteries that I'll never figure out.
Have an awesome day :)
Nice, very helpful - reminds me of Quark XPress days. Thanks for walk-through
Thanks for watching!
This is such a helpful tutorial! Thanks! I have a qn though. If I want to add grids to the calendar, how should I go about doing it?
To add a basic grid, go to View->Grids & Guides->Show Document Grid.
What if instead of the numbers on the calendar, I just wanted it to be a small shaded area (for example, like in the "BEST SELF" journal)? I want the shaded area to be where I manually write the number. I'm thinking of making a blank/undated calendar...Also, how do you make multiple calendars on a page? Do you just make multiple tables and align them accordingly?
Instead of numbers you can place a shaded box filled with the color you like and drop the opacity down. To make multiple calendars, make the main one and then you can easily select everything and copy and paste it to make more.
@@designlikeapro Thank you!
One question, can you do a video on how to do A5 inserts and adding holidays into each box like what size font is needed for A5??
For legibility purposes, you want to go no less than 10pt. The font you choose will also determine how small you can go. Some fonts are still legible at smaller point sizes. The document size doesn't affect the appropriate font size.
Thank you for this tutorial. Is there any way to fill the numbers automatically and not have to manually type them in?
Hi Jennifer! Thanks for watching! Unfortunately, I don't know of an automated way to add numbers for a calendar because it changes month to month. That doesn't mean a method doesn't exist though! I've always entered it in manually.
Thank you for the tutorial! I'm brand new to InDesign, specifically for the purpose of setting up my own therapist binder! Is there a way to set this up so that I can print on 8 1/2x11 paper (vs 17x11), and still have the month across 2 pages when I open it up?
Thanks Angelica. I'm assuming when you say binder that you want to have 8.5 x 11 on one side and another on the other side. That means you have 2, 8.5x11 sheets for one full month. You can definitely format it in the same way as an 11x17 with half your calendar on one sheet and the other half on the other. You'll be working with 2 pages instead of one landscape folded in half. To make it easier to see the calendar spread, I would start with 3 pages to your InDesign document, ignoring the first and then start your calendar spreads below that on pages 2 and 3. That way you see them side by side instead of split up.
Design Like a Pro thanks!
which video do I watch to learn how the heck to print this 11x17 on 8.5x11 letter size paper ?
i learned so many tricks watching the video like using alt+shift to duplicate. and coming to the end of the table and pressing shift and distributing rows and columns spaces equally and many more of those. why don't you post a video on shortcuts used in indesign. it will be lifesaver. i have seen many indesign videos. but this one was a life saver i should say. thank u so much. keep posting useful videos.
That's awesome Vicky, thank you for sharing! That's a great idea on a video for InDesign shortcuts. :)
This video was really helpful. Does this measurement work if I put pages in binder or will the holes be in the boxes?
Latoya Morris I would leave a little more room on the left sides of each for holes. That just means you would make the boxes a bit narrower. You can always run a test print and measure to know how much space you need.
Design Like a Pro ok thank you for answering so quickly. I didn't notice you replied back. Thank you
Design Like a Pro would it be the same if I did letter size and then select pages to view side by side? Thx again for video
I did everything step by step. I am wanting to do an A5 planner. When it printed it came out too big. Do I need to change it to A5 or start with an A5 document. Tabloid is too big. I’m not sure where I messed up.
What size paper are you printing on? If you are printing an A5 doc then your dimensions need to match this to print properly. They may be different than the dimensions I use in the video.
Thank you for the tutorial. You are the best!
thanks, it's incredibly helpful
Can you use formulas for the dates? Like on your weekly page, would you have to make a new file for each week, or could you use a formula like in MS Excel. I know virtually nothing about InDesign so maybe that's not even possible
Formulas like in Excel aren't native to InDesign. There could be a couple workarounds with the Calendar Wizard and or a script that would help automate that content. I don't use anything like that, unfortunately.
Design Like a Pro thanks for the reply. I’ve been doing some more research since I haven’t used indesign before. Sure would be nice if you could use formulas! ;-)
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering how I would go about making a week on 2 pages spread? Would it be the same concept?
Also I will be making my monthly planner pages using this. I am still learning how to do this kind of stuff.
The key is knowing how you want the table to lay out with your weeks and days. For example, do you want one week per spread with days of the week going down the left in rows so there is more room for text across the page? You could also put 4 rows on one side and 4 on the other with the days of the week in larger spaces and end with a notes box. Lots of options. I would do a quick online search for weekly planners to see all the various layout ideas. Then break down that layout into a table.
Also, does this print on two pages or would I need to cut in half? I will be going to a print shop for printing.
The document in the tutorial is setup on one page that you would cut in half. It helps with design on both sides when you can see it side by side. However, you could design a planner with 8.5x11 sheets and design the left on one page and the right on the other page. Then you can print them out. Your printer can also print the pages and cut them in half or print each page separate. Totally up to you. If you want to have these pages double-sided, I would design them on their own page. It makes it easier for your printer.
Design Like a Pro excellent, because I definitely want to print on both sides since I'll be making a personal planner for both personal and homeschooling use. Thank you so much! This helps me out so much and is super easy to follow.
Design Like a Pro last question. Since I will most likely be having separate pages would I need to save each one individually or can I create all my pages in one document and then export? Thank you
I usually export my initial print file in one PDF from InDesign and then use Acrobat to extract each page as it's own PDF. I do this a lot for publication printing as printers usually want each page as it's own PDF.
i have questions, im am struggling with the table, i did one and i want to make other one in the nest page with a different table color, but when i change the color all the table changes with it, i hope u understand my question and answer ASAP
This is an awesome tutorial- thank you
How did you save it to appear just how you made it into your planner?
For anybody outside US, know that A3 is the correct size (around 16.5in on the large side).
A3 = 2x A4 pages
A5 is half of A4 page size
Thanks for sharing the correct sizes.
Thank you! This was very helpful.
Awesome, thanks Karman!
This is a super dumb question but is there a way to copy the whole page to make a second and third page instead of redoing each month?
Leanne Smith Click and drag the page in the pages palette to the new page icon and it will duplicate it with all the design content in place.
U know this old but have a quick question, I have cs6 when when I do a table I have to have a text box but you didnt first, you hit new table then drawl ya text box is that only in cc ot can I do in cs6 ax well. Cuz having trouble when I make a table it dont go all way to bottom I'm having trouble resizing it to fit my page i want thanks.
Yes, my table technique is CC only. You can still draw your text box and then add rows to fill the space you have. CC greatly improves working with InDesign tables by the way.
I loved this tutorial, but I went to print and and it did not fit to page. What am I doing wrong?
I am struggling with exporting to pdf. I need to get two A6 pages on one LETTER size sheet with crop marks and all. Every time I export it export super strange.
That table features is so bomb, hope I can have it on my CS5😑
Hi, I'm unable to print this. I converted it to a PDF but still have no luck! Could you give specific directions on how to print the 11x17 size? Thanks!
When you say you are unable to print, can you be more specific? Does the printer you are printing to print to 11x17? Most standard desktop inkjets do not and only a few copy machines can. What happens when you save the PDF? Does it look the way it does when you designed it?
I'm trying to print onto a 2 page spread for a binder. Will this work for that? It does look the same as a pdf in Acrobat. I saw the comments below to extract it in 2 pages in Acrobat but I can't figure out how to do that.
If you want to side by side pages in a binder, I would create an 8.5x11 page for each side instead of creating it across one 11x17 page. That will make it easier to print. The steps are the same, you would just design one side of the calendar on one page and the other side on the other. To get a spread in InDesign you would need to have at 3 pages in the document so that page 2 & 3 are side by side. It makes it easier to design that way.
very nice thanks from algeria
For some reason after I add in the days of the week at the top, InDesign won't let me choose to add a table. All the options in the Table field are greyed out and I'm not able to select them. Am I doing something wrong?
Were you able to add the days of the week to a row in your table and then lost the ability to edit it? Tables need to exist in their own text box.
Thanks so much!!!!
thank you for the tutorial :)
How to change number in other month
How to get it printed
Why did you not use tabs to align the days? That should be much easier.
awesome thank you
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for posting
Thanks a lot
Thanks for watching!
May I know what software are you using to create a planner?
I am using the latest version of Adobe InDesign CC.
It wont let me select the entire table. It lets me select either the top for boxes, or the rest. Whats the deal?
You should be able to select the table by clicking anywhere on it once. If you double-click you will most likely end up in a cell. You can also double click into a a cell and click and drag to highlight all the cells. It depends on what you want to edit. What version of InDesign are you using? Versions older than CC have a more difficult table editing process.
Hi there, I realized what I had done wrong and got it all fixed. Thanks for the quick response!
Glad to hear! :)
super super
Vicky Vigneshwaran Thanks for watching!!
Where is part one?
A5 is not a letter in europe. Letter corresponds to A4
The ENTIRE calendar page could be done in tables, much more accurate, much more precise and much easier. Could have been more editable if only tables had been used properly.
Do not write your title in english if your video is not in english... you don't even have english subtitles!
Délalie-Djifa Gbeassor-Fiset I don't understand. The entire video is in English.
I'm so sorry, i was watching a bunch of different tutorial and one of them was not in english, but the title of the video was in english... sorry.
Délalie-Djifa Gbeassor-Fiset No worries. I figured that may have been the case. Take care!