Customer Reviews

Calendar Creator Version 12 Essentials

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I used Calendar Creator years ago and loved it. So when I was looking for something that could import from MS Outlook and provide the formatting that Outlook does not, I went looking for the new version of Calendar Creator. It crashed / hung / failed to respond 10 times in a row. Note that I am a software professional. I know PCs, and discounted the previous reviewer as an amateur. My aplogies. S/he was right. Calendar creator has gone south. Very poor product. Pretty box, lots of royalty free photos, but it doesn't run. BTW, my system is 3GHz Intel running XP with over a gig of ram. It's not my PC, it's the product. :-(

This software was so complicated and so hard to use that I gave up on it. Making a simple monthly calendar was well-near impossible. The compexity of the bells,horns and whistles was beyond me, and I have thirty years of experience with data base and spreadsheet software.

I've used various versions of Calendar Creator for over 10 years, and this has to be the absolute worst incarnation of what WAS a nice little program. The only reason I bought it was that version 4 will not run on WinXP. Forget getting a simple calendar! You can't. In previous versions you could add MULTIPLE event lists (US Holidays, Religious Holidays, etc.); with CC12 you can only add ONE. The basic calendar is portrait orientation only with an event list prominently over the caledar itself. You can change the orientation, delete the list, but NOT move the title to the center. I'm sorry there isn't a "No Star" option, because it doesn't even rate one star!!!

Don't buy this piece of junk and be disappointed and frustrated. I've deleted it, and won't buy another borderbund product. They forgot simplicity in the face of so many bells and whisltes that the user(at least this user) was totally confounded.

I purchased a couple of products locally, which I ended up returning because they didn't provide the options for the calendar I wanted to put together. With this Calendar Creator, I finished my calendar using my own vacation photos. I'm looking forward to making more for gifts next year.