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WinCalendar

By Sapro Systems Free to try Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Oct 22, 2012

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.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 4.43

Version 4.43:
  • Fixed compatibility issues with recent Google Calendar updates
  • Removes dependancy on Internet Explorer
  • Fixes minor date issues with Calendar Schedule layout in Word.

General

Release October 31, 2016
Date Added October 31, 2016
Version 4.43

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 10, Windows 2003, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7
Additional Requirements Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)

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Total Downloads 1,562,359
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Developer's Description

WinCalendar is both a desktop calendar and calendar maker that creates printable calendars in native Microsoft Word and Excel formats. The calendar creator supports creating Calendars, Schedules, Agendas and Gantt Charts with a variety of layout options. You can import data from Google Calendar, Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, iCal, TeamSnap, Excel (file or range) and CSV text file. WinCalendar is ideal for use in creating custom calendars and schedules. You can even save daily appointments in the pop-up calendar that display on created calendars.

WinCalendar is also a free pop-up calendar and date picker. It can be used as a stand-alone Windows desktop calendar or integrated with Microsoft Word and Excel. The pop-up calendar is now Free as part of WinCalendar.

WinCalendar can also be used as a graphical fertility calculator and ovulation predictor. WinCalendar is menu (see WinCalendar menu in Word and Excel) driven so there is no template to load and manage. See WinCalendar menu within Excel & Word for Calendar Maker features.

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