How to Create a Calendar Template in InDesign

In this tutorial, we'll walk through the basics of creating a calendar template in Adobe InDesign. We'll experiment with tables, cells, and ways that we can easily manipulate them to make adding in dates for each month easy!

Assets Used in This Video:

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Where to find A-Parent Pages (formally Master Pages)
01:11 How to make a table in InDesign
02:33 How to create cell styles
04:10 How to make a calendar
08:26 How to edit a calendar template in InDesign

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[iiiiieva]

How can I add days into the table that are from the month before? so 31, 30, 29 before the 1?

[conniefisaacs]

I loved this. Thank you for speaking slowly enough for me to keep up and being so exact about all your adjustments. I look forward to watching more videos by you.

[iiiiieva]

Thank you for the video! very clear.

If anyone is having the same problem as me - the number 1 just copy pasting as 1 in the other squares, press Type- Bulleted and Numbered lists - Continue Numbering, and then repeat the action :)

[SusanRubinsky]

Great tutorial! However, wouldn't you want to setup the page as a one over one spread so that you could save out the files properly for prepress? (The top of each calendar page would be printed on a different sheet of paper than the bottom part of the page if you were getting this professionally printed.)

[nathaneilsmith]

How would you add numbers to the calendar cause the layout is different for each month?

[rachelvarga]

This video is fantastic! Very efficient and pleasant to watch. Thank you for making this!

[fdcap]

This was fantastic! I have been using Indesign since before it was called in design! (Pagemaker days) I learned a couple of tricks here that really impressed me! Thanks!

[ambragcute]

This doesn’t allow the number changes to flow correctly through the different months, can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?❤

[mahendrasinghr]

This was wonderful! I have been using Indesign since 2019. I learned a many tricks from your channel that really impressed me! Thanks a lot! & God Bless you Mam. I Love you.

[fomoc]

Thank you for sharing. I follow step by steps 2 times to create like this is, but my page come out a bit different 😂 my row very thin and I can’t find the way to edit row height 😂
Do you have other videos to create 12 pages for 12 months video ?

[cnh]

Thank you! I need to make a last-minute project, and this was extremely helpful!!!

[jackie]

hello, good evening, I wanted to tell you that when I put the month of January it appears together with a one attached... how can I do so that January does not appear with the 1, thank you very much

[adampacher]

there should be an extension tho, that could make it for you and you don't have to type in individual days and make sure you didn't make any error

[thatbboyAli]

when i click create table its all ghosted does anyone know why?

[jeffreylee]

When I drag to create page 2. the page is blank .. I guess i'll have to start all over again.

[nayanbarman]

Very much informative. I want to see more professional

[mtm]

Very helpful and useful tutorial thank you so much for sharing

[yesithnaveen]

Thanks for sharing this tips. Keep it up!

[ariela_]

How did you create that horizontal guide at 1:09? What tool did you use