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solastalgia
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May 18, 2019
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Does a "Day of the Week" marker exist?

  • May 18, 2019
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Hi there I'm currently trying to design and print my own daily planner. I didn't realize when I started this what a grueling process it would be, and I'm looking for shortcuts.

On each page dedicated to a day, I have a text box where the day of the week goes — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. It's extremely time consuming to go page by page changing that text to the appropriate day. I was able to use page markers and sectioning to get InDesign to automatically number the date on each page, and I'm wondering if something similar for "day of the week" exists.

So, is there any way to get InDesign to populate my text boxes with the correct day of the week? I was thinking if there was a text marker that cycles through the seven days (i.e., puts "Wednesday" on page 29 and "Thursday" on page 30 or whatever) that it would help me out immensely. I'm open to any ideas you may have, even advice unrelated to this specific question but helpful in the making of a planner anyway.

Thanks so much!

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Colin Flashman
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Colin FlashmanCommunity Expert
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May 21, 2019

Might be a little late, but I have a script that will generate days of the week in ID. The full article is here: https://colecandoo.com/2017/11/20/my-calendar-caffuffle/  but the link to the actual download itself is here: https://colecandoo.com/scripts/  (under Date Related).

Without the script, I would make the dates in Microsoft Excel with two columns, both containing identical dates, but different appearances. The first column I would assign the format of d (to get the day digit of the date) and the second column I would assign the format dddd (to get the full name of the day of the date).

Save as an excel file, close it, and import into InDesign as a table. Convert the table to text using paragraphs as BOTH column and row separators, and the text will now look like this:

16

Monday

17

Tuesday

18

Wednesday

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!
    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    May 21, 2019

    That's brilliant, Colin!

    Gusgsm
    Gusgsm
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    May 18, 2019

    Make the model page as a master page

    Derive from them another seven master pages ("based on..."). One for each day, just change what you need.

    Make one week (apply the seven master pages in the document one each time).

    Select the seven pages-days in the pages panel.

    Duplicate the set of seven 51 times.

    The master pages are needed just in case that, if you are not happy with something, you can change it easily.

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