How to update a calendar that has one week on each page?

Report · Dec 06, 2023

I have a calendar of 2023 that is one week per page, with every day except sunday having its own text box. I would like to update it to 2024. By this I mean subtracting 1 or 2 (because leap year) from the date digits. Is there a way to do this?

Calendar Wizard does not seem well-suited for calendars that are split between multiple pages
It's often suggested that you make a calendar for each possible option. If there's no other solution then I will probably try this.
I'm open to working with scripts.

Any and all help is appreciated! Please feel free to ask clarifying questions.

Report · Dec 06, 2023

What do you mean by "By this I mean subtracting 1 or 2 (because leap year) from the date digits."

Do you mean you've "static" / separate TextFrames for each day?? They are not linked / threaded??

Can you show an example of how it looks like right now? In Screen Mode -> Normal:

and:

then select all objects on the page / spread so edges of the objects are visible.

Can you share your whole document - or part of it? You can upload it somewhere and send me a link on priv.

Report · Dec 07, 2023

What do you mean by "By this I mean subtracting 1 or 2 (because leap year) from the date digits."

The days of the week are on different dates. For example, the monday of the first week is

January 2nd in 2023
...but January 1st in 2024

Due to the leap day of February 29th, the friday of week 9 is

March 3rd in 2023
...but March 1st in 2024

In other words, I am looking for a way to automatically subtract 1 from each date in January and February, and 2 from each date in the other months. Of course, this does not work for every date but I think it would save me a lot of work.

Do you mean you've "static" / separate TextFrames for each day?? They are not linked / threaded??

Can you show an example of how it looks like right now?

The text frames are not threaded. Attached is a screenshot of one of the pages (with censor). My employers do not want me to share (parts of) the document.

Report · Dec 07, 2023

That's what I was affraid of...

Poorly generated document...

Can you share your document? On priv.

I can run it through my tool and quickly and easily "fix" it - thread all those TFs as a single Story - so you could quickly and easily make it more "universal" - for 2024 and following years.

Report · Dec 13, 2023

I cannot. My employers do not want me to share it.

How would turning the separate text frames into a single story help me with my specific issue?

Report · Dec 13, 2023

Right now you've bunch of unrelated TFs - 365+ - if they were linked as a Story - you could just paste a new contents to the whole month at once - so 12x updates instead of 365+...

And with special Excel file - you could include extra info for each day - names, Holidays, etc. - and then generate InDesign Tagged Text with everything pre-styled - weekdays, names, holidays, Sundays in red - even extra icons - but icons would have to be as special tags and replaced after import - unless you would used glyphs from dedicated font.

So once set up correctly - doing following years would only require updating extra info - holidays - and reimporting 12x months.