Creating a Custom Calendar with Canva

[@learncanvawithgreg]

🚀🌟Grab the free calendar templates: learningwithgreg.mykajabi.com/free-calendar-templates ADDITIONAL TIP: I just noticed the "Calendar Maker" App in Canva...you can search for it under the Apps tab and it will auto-generate a Calendar style table with dates and labels for the days of the week for whatever month you select. It has some basic options for stylizing the background/text but I think the big win here is just an easy way to generate the correct date/days of the week for any given month without having to make lots of manually corrections. There are not a lot of Canva Apps that I find to be super useful, but, in terms of creating calendars, this one could be useful. Of course, it could be improved even further if you could just get it to create all calendar pages for an entire year (not yet an option I don't believe) so in some cases you might still be better off searching for and finding a calendar template that is correctly built out for the entire year in question, but if you can't find one then this app can still save you some time! Best of luck. cheers, Greg

[@AsharPak]

Thank you so much for the help. I will certainly make the job easier

[@Wrightn221]

I might give those for Christmas. I make homemade stuff, every year. I sew, etc. Thanks Greg.

[@learncanvawithgreg]

Sure, you're welcome. Yes, we often give custom calendars for Christmas...if I can get myself organized enough to pull pictures together. : ) cheers, Greg

[@user-os9eo7he5o]

Thank you for your hard work!

[@learncanvawithgreg]

My pleasure!

[@pasticciottiontheroad]

Wow, so informativ. Thank you so much for your great work. You are amazing!

[@learncanvawithgreg]

Thanks for the kinds words, glad you found it helpful. cheers, Greg

[@seong-su6336]

Thank you

[@learncanvawithgreg]

You're welcome! cheers, Greg

[@AsharPak]

Hi Greg, thank you for the detailed and very well explained video. I need a little help with changing the first day of the week on every month. In the examples you provided, the week starts from Sunday (and most of the templates provided by Canva have same settings), Is there a way to change the start of week to Monday and all the dates get adjusted automatically or I will have to do all these manually for all months? please.

[@learncanvawithgreg]

Hello Ashar, thanks for the question. Unfortunately, Canva doesn't have an easy way to automatically adjust dates and days of the week. Sometimes you can look and find a template with a year that matches your need so that you have a starting point where dates/days match up and you can adjust the design, fonts, etc. and that's often easier than manually adjusting all the dates or days. Also, if it's built with the text in table cells than sometimes you can copy and paste from something like excel/google sheets and this can sometimes be easier than adjusting all text items in Canva. But it really just depends on your needs and how things are set up. It would be great for Canva in the future to have a way for you to define the year and have the calendar dates/day auto update! cheers, Greg

[@AsharPak]

@@learncanvawithgreg Thank you very much. Appreciated 👍

[@learncanvawithgreg]

Of course, happy to help! cheers, Greg

[@learncanvawithgreg]

@AsharPak, quick update...I just noticed the "Calendar Maker" App in Canva...you can search for it under the Apps tab and it will auto-generate a Calendar style table with dates and labels for the days of the week for whatever month you select. It has some basic options for stylizing the background/text but I think the big win here is just an easy way to generate the correct date/days of the week for any given month without having to make lots of manually corrections. There are not a lot of Canva Apps that I find to be super useful, but, in terms of creating calendars, this one is certainly useful. Of course, it could be improved even further if you could just get it to create calendar page for an entire year (not yet I don't believe) so in some cases you might still be better off searching for and finding a calendar template that is correctly built out for the entire year in question, but if you can't find one then this app can still save you some time! Best of luck. cheers, Greg

[@CM-zl2jw]

I REALLY like your tutorials Greg but is your mic wonky? The audio quality seems odd. Hard to listen to but great content.

[@learncanvawithgreg]

It hurts, it hurts. : ) Actually critiques are sometimes hard to hear, but fair ones, as this is, are SO valuable and appreciated. So, thank you for the kinds words and honest critique! I have a decent microphone (although not top top end), but I have no doubt I can continue to work to figure out ways to improve my audio quality. Some things, like a professional sound studio : ), might not be in the immediate future, but hopefully I can figure out some ways to continue to improve the audio quality. I do love when listening to folks that have that buttery smooth audio and know I'm certainly not at that level yet. Are there specific things you're noticing with regards to my Audio? Harsh S and P sounds? Background noise? Distortion? Or perhaps just sounding just a little harsh/off and not having that buttery smooth sound? Thanks again for the critique, I will definitely work on trying to improve my audio! cheers, Greg

[@CM-zl2jw]

@@learncanvawithgreg Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Greg! 😊 I noticed some distortion- I’m not very technical so it just sounded a bit off and made it tricky to listen. Your content is fantastic, though! Keep it up! You have the potential to be one of the greats! I really want to learn Canva better and create a calendar for my Shopify store… and have it customizable… year after year. You are one of the best Canva tutorial presenters on KZbin. I’m not sure why the Canva people can’t do better? It’s such an awesome platform. Thanks for the templates that you shared.

[@learncanvawithgreg]

@@CM-zl2jw Thanks for the feedback and kind words, much appreciated! cheers, Greg