# Looking for printable calendar **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922 "2006-12-28T23:03:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/1 "2006-12-28T23:03:24Z")
I’m looking for a 2007 calendar to print out on my printer. I want this calendar to have the biggest squares possible, so I don’t want headers/footers. I just want the month/year to print out and then the number of the days in the appropriate boxes–the simpler the better. I did a search and found [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=396363&highlight=calendar), but I think that was more of a calendar for using on-line. For my purposes, I want a calendar that just prints out easily. I don’t have Word and I’m not interested in creating one in Excel if at all possible. I’ve tried googling free calendars, but most of the ones that show up have pretty small boxes since there’s always stuff around the calendar. Anyone know of a clean, printable calendar that I can find for free? Thanks for the help. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/2 "2006-12-28T23:58:32Z")
Just last week I also tried to find a good one as you describe, and was mystified that none seemed to be available. There used to be lots of them. The only one I found that came close, but still had too-small date boxes is [here](http://www.jimsgraphix.com/lowcal.htm) It may be better than nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/3 "2006-12-29T01:28:38Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] Just last week I also tried to find a good one as you describe, and was mystified that none seemed to be available. There used to be lots of them. The only one I found that came close, but still had too-small date boxes is [here](http://www.jimsgraphix.com/lowcal.htm) It may be better than nothing. [/QUOTE] Isn’t it odd how hard it is to find a simple printable calendar with the biggest spaces for writing and without all the margins? I found one a couple years ago but unfortunately can’t remember where it was. It fit my needs perfectly, but I didn’t think to store the knowledge away because I thought it would be easy to find again. Amazingly, not so. Thanks for linking that calendar, but the one in Microsoft Works prints out a little biggger, so I’ll go with that if I can’t find another one here. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/4 "2006-12-29T01:31:14Z")
You can do it in MS Word if you have it (Open Office might have it as well). Search the Help file using the work “calendar” and take it from there. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/5 "2006-12-29T01:56:47Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] You can do it in MS Word if you have it (Open Office might have it as well). Search the Help file using the work “calendar” and take it from there. [/QUOTE] Thanks, but I don’t have MS Word. I have MS Works (and have used the word processor program there), but obviously that’s not nearly as good. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/6 "2006-12-29T02:30:03Z")
Here is a site that lets you make plain caeldars and you can even customize it a little. I am not sure what paper size you are trying to use though. Here is one I made: [http://www.calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/tycbig.pl?century=20&year=6&month=01&change=1&suppresshol=](http://www.calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/tycbig.pl?century=20&year=6&month=01&change=1&suppresshol=) Here is the base site: > **[CalendarHome.com](https://calendarhome.com/print-a-calendar/)** > > Today in history, 10,000-year calendar, > a store with thousands of calendars, calendar encyclopedia, and hundreds of links. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/7 "2006-12-29T03:26:19Z")
This one is similar to Shagnasty’s but perhaps has more options: [Calendar 2023](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/) [Click here to customize](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/custommenu.html?year=2006&country=1&lang=en&moon=on&hol=25), look under “Display Type” to select box size (“Add extra space for notes”). ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/8 "2006-12-29T03:28:58Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] Thanks, but I don’t have MS Word. I have MS Works (and have used the word processor program there), but obviously that’s not nearly as good. [/QUOTE] I don’t know if that MS Works suite has Outlook, but if it does you can create a blank calendar in the calendar file and print the months from any date range you specify. You can create a variety of templates (monthly, weekly, weekends listed together vs seprately etc). If you don’t have Outlook, well, nevermind! ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/9 "2006-12-29T04:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Here is a site that lets you make plain caeldars and you can even customize it a little. I am not sure what paper size you are trying to use though. Here is one I made: > **[CalendarHome.com - January 2006 #](https://calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/tycbig.pl?century=20&year=6&month=01&change=1&suppresshol=)** Here is the base site: > **[CalendarHome.com](https://calendarhome.com/print-a-calendar/)** > > Today in history, 10,000-year calendar, > a store with thousands of calendars, calendar encyclopedia, and hundreds of links. [/QUOTE] Thanks, Shagnasty. This is pretty close. . . getting closer than the Works calendar anyway. But here’s what I’m hoping for. . . notice how there’s a box around the whole calendar – that sets the limits of the margin. I’d like to see a calendar without a box around it. If they moved January down to the blank spaces (there’s some blank space in every month whether at the beginning or the end) and took out the website name on the bottom, there’d be a lot more space at the top and bottom. I zeroed out the margins and the squares are bigger, but still not as big as I’d like. > [@Sharky](#): > > This one is similar to Shagnasty’s but perhaps has more options: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/) Thanks Sharky, but those don’t have any boxes, the blank space are spaces after the calendar. Did I read it wrong? > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > If you don’t have Outlook, well, nevermind! Nope, no Outlook here. I’m getting the feeling that I’m supposed to have the MS Office applications to print a calendar. Thanks for the post, though. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/10 "2006-12-29T04:23:21Z")
See if any of the free templates at mycustomcalendars dot com would work for you. I’ve printed them using Word, but they open in other applications as well. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/11 "2006-12-29T04:40:59Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] See if any of the free templates at mycustomcalendars dot com would work for you. I’ve printed them using Word, but they open in other applications as well. [/QUOTE] AuntiePam, I downloaded the template for 2007 from the website and when I tried to open it with the word processor in MS Works, it said that there was insufficient memory to open it. Strange! I’ve never gotten that message before, so I closed all my applications except for that one and it still had the same message. Thanks for the link, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/12 "2006-12-29T04:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] Thanks Sharky, but those don’t have any boxes, the blank space are spaces after the calendar. Did I read it wrong? [/QUOTE] I made [this one](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2006&country=1&typ=1&display=1&lang=en&space=4&month=1) by selecting “One Single Month”, then under “Display Type” selected “Large”, then from “Add Extra Space?” selected “4 Empty Lines”, then in “Other Options” selected “No Holidays” and clicked off the box next to “Show Phases of the Moon?”. Then I clicked “Show Calendar”, and on that page selected “Printer-friendly Format” under “Notes”. It sounds complicated, but in practice it’s quite simple. For comparison: [for this one](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2006&country=1&typ=1&display=1&lang=en&space=10&month=1) I selected “10 Empty Lines” under “Add Extra Space”. Thus, you can control the size of the day boxes somewhat, but I don’t think there’s a way to remove the grid entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/13 "2006-12-29T04:49:29Z")
There are some tips for tweaking the results [here](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/printhelp.html). ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/14 "2006-12-29T04:52:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sharky] I made [this one](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2006&country=1&typ=1&display=1&lang=en&space=4&month=1) by selecting “One Single Month”, then under “Display Type” selected “Large”, then from “Add Extra Space?” selected “4 Empty Lines”, then in “Other Options” selected “No Holidays” and clicked off the box next to “Show Phases of the Moon?”. Then I clicked “Show Calendar”, and on that page selected “Printer-friendly Format” under “Notes”. It sounds complicated, but in practice it’s quite simple. For comparison: [for this one](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2006&country=1&typ=1&display=1&lang=en&space=10&month=1) I selected “10 Empty Lines” under “Add Extra Space”. Thus, you can control the size of the day boxes somewhat, but I don’t think there’s a way to remove the grid entirely. [/QUOTE] Ah, I see. I did read the website wrong. Thanks for clarifying. And maybe I’m still looking at it wrong, but when I go to print it up, there’s like a huge white border on both sides of the calendar even with my margins set to zero. Is there a way to eliminate the white space and get the calendar to the very edges of the page, so I get the most writing space possible in the date boxes? ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/15 "2006-12-29T05:02:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sharky] There are some tips for tweaking the results [here](http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/printhelp.html). [/QUOTE] Thanks. I did some tweaking and found that I could print the one with the lesser lines in landscape at 125% and got a pretty nice calendar because the website address fell off the bottom of the page, but there was still quite a bit of wasted space on the sides. The other calendar looked bettter in portrait because the lines were more vertical, but I was hoping for more of a landscape calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/16 "2006-12-29T05:04:29Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] Ah, I see. I did read the website wrong. Thanks for clarifying. And maybe I’m still looking at it wrong, but when I go to print it up, there’s like a huge white border on both sides of the calendar even with my margins set to zero. Is there a way to eliminate the white space and get the calendar to the very edges of the page, so I get the most writing space possible in the date boxes? [/QUOTE] I tried increasing the text size, that blew up the calendar bigger so that it filled the page- problem is, it bumped the calendar into two pages. I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/17 "2006-12-29T07:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sharky] I tried increasing the text size, that blew up the calendar bigger so that it filled the page- problem is, it bumped the calendar into two pages. I’m stumped. [/QUOTE] Thanks for all your work on this. I certainly don’t mean to be difficult about this. I was rather shocked to find out how difficult this whole finding a calendar process has become. It seemed like an easy request when I first thought about it, but it seems to not be the case. I’ve found that finding a good PIM (personal information manager) is a very difficult process also. But I do appreciate your efforts. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/18 "2006-12-29T15:34:13Z")
Could you just make what you want in a spreadsheet program? That way you could have your rows and columns exactly the right size, and just fill in the dates. It would be a bit of a pain, but you could make it exactly as you want it. StG ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/19 "2006-12-29T15:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] Just last week I also tried to find a good one as you describe, and was mystified that none seemed to be available. There used to be lots of them. The only one I found that came close, but still had too-small date boxes is [here](http://www.jimsgraphix.com/lowcal.htm) It may be better than nothing. [/QUOTE] Just wanted to thank you for that site. Every year I try to find an easily printable calendar w/ predictably frustrating results. Your’s was exactly what I wanted, no fuss, no muss, download to pdf and print it out. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-printable-calendar/385922/20 "2007-01-03T06:07:07Z")
I just wanted to come back and thank everyone for posting responses on this thread. I actually did find the printable calendar I was looking for. But it wasn’t online. I’m a little shame-faced that I asked and answered my own question, but I’m sure that the people on this thread helping me to think about this probably jogged my memory and helped me get motivated about this. I actually used a Hallmark Studios software package that I bought sometime in 2001-2002. I had already looked at the calendars in the printable section before I posted, but I forgot about the event planner that prints out blank calendars also. I used the blank calendar in the event planner section. The squares are nice and large and in the blank spaces, there are even the previous and next month’s calendars in miniature. So I have 2007 calendars all printed out and ready to go. Thanks for all your help.