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Setting up the Grid for your Calendar Pages for the Appointment Style Calendar
Please note:  I have created this Tutorial on my Mac so the environment may look slightly different.

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Start by making a New Page = Control "N"

Set it up as a "Letter" = 8.5 x 11"

Make it Horizontal / Landscape


Set up Margins / Guides at 1/2" (.5")
on the Left, Right and Bottom of the New Page

Set the Margin / Guides at .25" (1/4") at the Top

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Type the name of one of the months

you'll be using.

Change that font to something more . . . fun,

more . . . decorative and make 72 point.

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Position it in the center of the page.

And align the top of the Type to the


Top Guide line (Margin).


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Set a Guide Line / Margin about 1/4" (.25") under the name of the month

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Choose the Rectangular Grid Tool




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"Click" the cross-hairs on the top left margins,

under the name of the month.










The Rectangular Grid Tool Menu will pop up

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Type in all the coordinates shown here then click "OK"

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It should now look like this . . . pretty much.

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Use the Group Selection Tool (Open Arrow with the Plus Sign)

to Select the Top INSIDE Horizontal Line.

Move it up to about 3/8" from the Top OUTSIDE Frame Line


Now you're going to ALIGN all the other lines to fit in the rest of the space

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You will be distributing only the Horizontal lines that are

INSIDE the Frame of the Grid

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Use the Rectangle Shape Tool and make a Rectangle. 

Align it to the Bottom outside Line of the Frame of the Grid.


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Again, use the Group Selection Tool and Select the Top Inside Line -

not the Top OUTSIDE (FRAME) - and the other INSIDE Horizontal lines,

and Select the Red Rectangle -

be sure you have not selected any of the outside frame lines.



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Use the Alignment Pallet and click the Vertical Distribute Spacing Option.

See the Option circled at left.

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All the Horizontal Lines should look like this.

I am using an older picture here - that's why the block rectangle

at the bottom is now Black . . . sorry.

Delete the Block Rectangle at the bottom. 


Let's do the Tabs for the Days of the month


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