Perpetual Mini Calendar Tutorial-Affinity Publisher

If you make planners or printable then perhaps you want to include those small monthly calendars in your layouts.
In this tutorial I show you how you can set up a master file in Affinity Publisher that will allow you to make a new set of mini calendars each year in about 15 minutes.
Template set-up can be done in 20-30 minutes, depending on your comfort level with Publisher. Make edits to create different calendars. Once you have this file made, new calendars are easy-peasy.
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[@kojokojo7523]

I used to do this manually but you have showed me a great technique. Lol You're amazing 🤩 Thanks so much

[@tmcdgreen]

You are a lifesaver!!! And a great teacher, I was able to follow you step by step! I appreciate your videos :)

[@printablesacademy]

You're very welcome!

[@sowmyakalyankar7393]

Thank you!

[@sereeneseah4048]

Bullets and Numbering (under paragraph) also work to generate the numbers fast. Great idea with the master though. Thank you.

[@printablesacademy]

Thanks for the tip! I tried it out and worked great.

[@rogerwalton8160]

Excellent - thank you. I use Lightroom to produce CD-Case calendars every year and it's always a pain finding suitable calendars to use with these. Now I can really customise the design to suit my images rather than "making do" with what I can find!

[@cherrygirl8204]

This video was so helpful!!! You should make more videos with this amazing program please 🙏 Also I have a request if it’s possible about to made Erin condren and other layout for different size papers for print for example the personal size, hope you could do it ♥︎

[@printablesacademy]

Sure...so in Erin Condren style or how to set up the different page sizes for EC planners?

[@tmcdgreen]

@@printablesacademy I second this idea - maybe with Happy Planner too?

[@3PairDesigns]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you! I have the entire suite of Affinity tools and I love them! I used to use Adobe Illustrator which I loved, but it was just too costly! I actually bought Affinity Publisher because I made my very first calendar and planner with it. Relatively steep learning curve without folks like you! Would you happen to know if Affinity Publisher has a "plug in" or "script" for calendar and planner creation like Adobe InDesign does? I have to admit, I saw it and was pretty darn impressed! Thank you for this, I am a new subscriber, thank you, thank you!!

[@printablesacademy]

I had not seen that InDesign script until you mentioned it. I had seen tutorials on using data merge in InDesign for planners, and Publisher added Data Merge a little while back. It is on my to-do list to play around with the data merge. I am not aware that Publisher has any abilities to use scripts but that might be a good question for the folks at Affinity. The suite is still relatively young compared to Adobe, and they keep adding features.

[@jasbeav]

@@printablesacademy the data merge function in Publisher works like a charm for this. I actually prefer the merge feature in Publisher over the InDesign merge because you have more options for source file types and format