Customer Reviews

Calendar Creator 8 (Jewel Case)

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I just purchased Calendar Creator 8.0 and it will not print with Windows XP. I spent over 4 hours with tech support at Lexmark, over 2 hours folowing Borderbund's tech support advice to download new printer drivers and finally made a call to Borderbund (not a free call - waited 23 minutes paying long distance). After about 5 minutes, the tech support person told me that they were having problems with Calendar Creator running in XP and there was no solution at this time.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT

I finally had to upgrade since my old version wouldn't run on XP. This one runs but printing is a total pain-in-the-butt! Unlike the other reviewer, I did manage to get it to print, sort of. (Maybe I have a different LexMark printer.) But overall, the whole package stinks!! Learning curve is horrible. Nothing is intuitive! Events keeps rescheduling themselves. Defaults don't work. If all you want to do is print out pretty calendars with nothing on them, then fine. It's cheap. Go for it. Maybe it will work. If you want one place to keep track of your life, maybe it will work. It's cheap. But you might look at other packages first before settling for this one.

I bought this software locally, and tried to install it yesterday. Instructions say to shut down any background programs when installing in Windows ME, which I did. Not only did the software not install--although there were noises and blinking lights--the process somehow made my CD and DVD drives "undetectable" by my computer, just as if they didn't exist. Upon going to the support URL listed on the package, I found out the product is no longer supported, so if there's a problem you're on your own. I got my drives back through system restore and Windows Update.

So, be careful with this one, especially if you have any of the newer Windows OS's; it was evidently made for the older ones and has compatibility problems. I was surprised and disappointed, because I've had good luck with Broderbund before.

I bought this product to make family calendars and have found it useless. My biggest beef? You can't have more than one event on a date -- it appears on as "overflow" that you must print as an additional sheet! How many families do you know with no overlapping birthdays or anniversaries?

This is a TERRIBLE piece of software. I use it once a year to print a monthly calendar, and it always gives me problems. The reason I continue to use it is that it can print 2 months on a page, and it can tell you how old people are or what anniversary number it is using the "&count" function. The Microsoft Outlook calendar does not have these features.

Calendar Creator will not print on my HP DeskJet 830C. The solution to this problem is to set up a built in Windows printer river for an older printer. I use the HP DeskJet 640C/642C/648C driver. (Use Start, Printers and Faxes, Add Printer.)

Do NOT change the name of the printer. If you change the name, Calendar Creator will give you a paper stock error. If you want to identify the printer for use with Calendar Creator, use the comment field on the printer list.

I really hate this product. It defaults to the start date of whenever *today* is, and I'm trying to work on a project for 2004. It's awful and I'm not sure whether to upgrade and discover they've improved it, or to look elsewhere. This program is really not worth purchasing, IMO.

Glad to be back in the calendar business again!!! This is one of the best calendar packages out there, and I highly recommend it.I started using calendar creator with DOS way back and loved it. The first windows versions were decent, then with version 5 the software became so buggy it wasn't worth it. It seems with verion 8 though, they have managed to overcome most of their problems. I'm running it on windows 98 and having good luck. It is a little complicated for someone unaccustomed to the software, but once you figure it out, all the features really add to the flexability. I'm hoping the newer versions add a few more features, but this one works well and I'm pleased!

I am happy for this review of the software