I just finished up a new project I've been working on. It is a MAPI / Outlook / Exchange Calendar Checking Tool. It is available on Codeplex - http://calcheck.codeplex.com/ This is a command line tool - here is the help for it: CalCheck version...

There is a new print view that is built into Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 called the "Weekly Agenda Style". This is there by default in Outlook 2010, but for Outlook 2007, you have to first install one of the cumulative updates. There is a bit of confusion...

If you have installed the April 2010 Cumulative Update or later for Outlook 2007, you will notice that word-wrapping has been added to the print views for Monthly and Weekly styles. That's pretty cool - and has been a lingering and frequently requested...

It seems that one of the "holy grails" for the Calendar Printing Assistant is to be able to colorize entire appointments with the category colors for those appointments. There is a way to signify the category with CPAO - which is the colored dot that...

I wanted to put a Weekly CPAO template example up - so here it is. I will start out with the Weekly List 01 Letter Template, and do some modifications to it. I will not cover the entire template - just changes that I make in it to show how it can be modified...

In the previous section showing a 3x5 daily calendar printout using CPAO, I did not include a timeline. In this final example for a daily template I will show what that looks like: So the big difference here is the timeline for the day on...

My co-worker posted a how-to on a different way to do printing with a Word template. So if CPAO just won't do what you want, then you might be able to use the Word template as a solution that will work for you... http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbradley...

I have had several customers request a Daily Template that fits data on a 3x5 index card sized printout. I have done a few different iterations of this layout to customize things for each particular customer - but I wanted to give an example of this...

After making all these posts on editing CPAO - I can see that it will be nice to have them all together in one paper that can be used for reference. I have uploaded a PDF that has all the CPAO template editing posts in them. Hopefully this will be a help...

Here is the entire listing of the code from the Standard Month Legal template I created. First - here is the contents of the Metadata.xml file: <Metadata xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2005/xcal" Version="1.0.0"> <Name>Standard...

So far everything has been edited in the Content.xml file (located in the \Cal directory after renaming/unzipping the CATX file - see the section on Opening and Saving Template Files) . That is the main file for doing the formatting of a particular template...

Now on to the formatting the footer area of the page. Here is a screenshot and the code: <!-- Standard Footer --> <Grid Row="4" Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,4,0,0" RowSetting="Auto" ColumnSetting="*,*,*">...

This section moves into the Day Format area: <DayFormat> <Grid RowSetting="*" ColumnSetting="*" Height="Auto" Style="LevelLeafParent"> <CalendarText Row="0" Column="0" FontSize="46pt" FontWeight="Bold" Text="#[%d]" FontFamily...

And now to editing what is seen in the calendar. I am still using the "Standard Month 01 Letter" template as the base for showing some options here. So here is the code that describes the layout of the appointments and the grid: <!--MonthDayCalendar...

Okay - on to the month thumbnails. Here is the screenshot and code for those again: <Display> <Page RowSetting="0.25in,Auto,0.2in,*,0.4in" ColumnSetting="0.25in,*,0.25in" Style="StandardText"> <!-- Background -->...

The Header of the template is versatile. It can have additional month thumbnails, it has the month name or the weeks or the days in the weekly and daily templates, etc. In the example I have been using (Month_StandardMonth01.catx) the Header looks...

Now on to some actual editing. We will work with the whole page here. Here is the original template (Month_StandardMonth01.catx): On this page, there is a Header with stuff in it, the Days/Weeks in the month in a grid with appointments in...

First - I would like to cover how to do comments when editing the CPAO templates. At the top of the Content.xml file there are some comments: <!-- Copyright (c) 2007, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. --> <!-- Standard Month...

The Calendar Printing Assistant uses templates with the extension .CATX. The templates are stored in the Office template folder, which is typically the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates folder. These files are essentially renamed...

I am going to be posting an ongoing series of topics dealing with editing templates for the Calendar Printing Assistant. I'll start the title of each one with "CPAO:" so they can be easy to find.

I have worked quite a few issues with CPAO - and when I need to install it - I always have to check to see where all the versions and fixes are for this app. So - to help others with this - here are the installs and hotfixes needed at present: Main...