Affinity Publisher V2 Text Styles Tutorial | Create a Yearly Calendar Spread | Planners or Print

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for watching my latest tutorial. I hope you enjoy this deep dive in to using Text Styles and Multi Level Lists to "automate" the calendar creation process in Affinity Publisher. This can be used to create a smaller single month grid, or a yearly spread. You can also use the concept to create a full month spread across a page. If you have any questions, as always, please let me know below! If you would like to see certain Affinity Publisher topics covered here, let me know that as well! I have several Publisher tutorials (and full length classes) in the works so stay tuned! Happy Creating!

[@carlatr581]

Amazing tutorial -- thank you!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching!

[@BernardtheGhost]

This is an excellent tutorial - just watching your set up is super helpful.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much BernardtheGhost! I appreciate you watching, and taking the time to comment!

[@yukoncornelium]

This will save me sooo much time! Thanks Tracey!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

So happy to hear that! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment Yukon!

[@YagirlM]

Great vid. Thank you Tracey ❤

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you! And thank you for watching and commenting ❤️

[@BettyMullins]

Thank you so much this video has been so helpful

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

You're very welcome Betty! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to leave a comment :)

[@lauraeccleston]

You are amazing! I’ve been wanting to create these assets for a while but was dreading all the work and time I thought it would take…thank you 😊

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you very much Laura! I’m so happy to hear this will be helpful for you! Thanks so much for watching, and taking the time to comment!

[@MaryHardymsmary_h]

Wow thank you so much ❤

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

You’re very welcome! Thank you!!

[@niklausfischer6338]

Dear Tracey, I wasn't that interested in this publisher work at first. But then I did it and learnt a lot of new things in the process. Many thanks for that! I would be delighted if you did something to do with nature again: e.g. tracing photos of birds or butterflies with vectors and adding colour and textures. I particularly liked your flower lessons. Thanks again for your work and best regards from Switzerland. Niklaus

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you very much for taking the time to watch the tutorial, and try it out, Niklaus! I'm happy you walked away with some new things to use in the future. Thank you for letting me know! Thank you, as well, for the suggestions for future videos!

[@hellomynameisbeautiful]

Thank you so much for this! It was so helpful. Can I ask how you would create a calendar page across two pages?

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi there! Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment. I'm so happy to hear it was helpful! I'm actually pulling together a tutorial for that. It would be difficult to explain in writing here but hopefully you will find that tutorial helpful! (coming out soon!)

[@lindarobshaw]

This is a great tutorial, Tracey! I'm running into a problems though that you didn't cover. When I set my Body level 2 to start at a certain number - 1, 29, etc. - it changes all the L2 cells to start at that number!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you for watching, Linda! Thank you, as well for the lovely compliment, I appreciate it! Are you deselecting all of the L2 numbers that you don't want to change before changing the number using the "Start Numbering At" field in the Paragraph Panel? For example, if the trailing numbers at the end of the month (in other words the dates from the upcoming month) are correct and you don't need to change them, are you deselecting them before you change the starting number in the Paragraph panel? If not, that's going to change everything. At about 24:55 on the timeline I deselect the last day in January before I change the first three leading days to the 29-31. If I'm misunderstanding, and it's actually changing everything to the same number, can you please let me know the exact steps you're taking to change the number? As long as you use "Start Numbering At" in the Paragraph panel, it shouldn't give you the same number in each cell. Thank you again!

[@lindarobshaw]

Thanks for the quick response, Tracey! Yep, I've deselected all the ones I don't want to change, but it's not only changing both the beginning and end dates, but it's changing the ones in other tables too! 😕 Everything that's L2 changes to the new starting number.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

That's so strange! Did you make sure that the entire grid was Level 1 first by selecting all the cells and adding the L1 paragraph style to it before you selected individual dates to change to Level 2?

[@lindarobshaw]

I did. The whole table as L1 to begin with then selecting the bits that sound be L2 (beginning and end of month separately) and changing the setting for those. It's very weird.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@@lindarobshaw hmmmm. Go to the Text Styles panel, click on the burger menu on the L2 style and choose Edit the style. Make sure that Level in the Bullets & Numbering is actually showing Level 2 and not one. If it's showing No Change or something like that, just set it to Level 2 and resave. See if that helps!

[@temartins]

I have a question about the tutorial: why did you turn the stoke off on the master page, and not on the asset? Is it to give the freedom to use it with lines or simply remove it later as we go? I already saw a lot of things that could have saved me time in my 2024 digital planner. I can't wait to attend your new course.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi Te! I leave the stroke on the asset because I don't turn the strokes off on my tables until after I format them with the correct dates for whatever year I'm creating. I could do it with the lines off but I just find it easier to see what I'm doing, as well as make sure I don't need to adjust anything if I decide to change fonts, spacing, etc, with the grid lines on. It also helps to see the lines when I'm placing all the months on the page, so I can really get a feel for spacing. I would just prefer to adjust my dates first, then remove the lines as I go. Let me know if you have any questions about the above, or any others! I'm so glad you found things that could help you with your new planner! I look forward to seeing you in the course! Thank you for watching!

[@temartins]

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage it makes total sense your way of work. Thank you.

[@sukibujo3298]

Hi Tracey I have Learned so much from your tutorials here on youtube and skillshare.Thank you so much. But as a digital planner im really struggling to fine a planner that suits me i usually have to buy multiples to get what i need. If you can please show how to create a simple planner im sure i will bw able to build up from thare. Thank you again for your wonderful tutorials

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much for watching, and taking the time to comment! I appreciate it! I totally understand the struggle to find the perfect planner. I'm putting together a class now on how to create one in Affinity Publisher, start to finish, and will post when it's complete. Hopefully that will help you! (by the way, are you using the iPad or desktop version?) Thank you again!

[@MaryHardymsmary_h]

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[@Agentscrange]

Whener i use number it has a dot beside it. How do i get rid of that

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi there! At about 11:16 on the timecode I show how to remove it. You would remove it from the Text formatting box under Bullets and Numbering when you're creating the Paragraph style. Let me know if you have any questions! Thanks for watching!