Calendar Creator 12 Deluxe By Broderbund :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Dissappointed

2007-12-29
Dissappointed, product does not do what it claims and is difficult to use. Would not recommend.

Picture layout changes from screen to printer

2007-12-23
I attempted to lay out several pictures for each monthly calendar. The layout changed from what was on my screen to what would actually print out. I experienced quality degradation of my photos that I couldn't fix. The background color had to be the same for every month. It was very challenging to figure out how to make the program produce a calendar where each month fit over two pages, pictures on the top page, calendar dates on the bottom page, in landscape mode (so that it could be comb bound in the middle). I finally gave up using this program for the photo part of the calendar. I printed the pictures using Adobe Photoshop, the calendar using this program, and took it to a color printing shop for duplication.

major disappointment

2007-11-23
I had a much earlier version of calendar creator and was forced to upgrade because of a new microsoft operating system. Sadly, the programmers at Broderbund have not been kind to this program in the meantime. Where it used to be easy to add multiple items to the calendar, it is now a more laborious process. Where it was easy to format printing for standard filofax paper, it's now not. You used to be able to print a very plain, simple format, not tarted up with pictures, fancy layouts, etc. No more, or certainly not easily. Someone should tell software companies that more is not always better!!!

Calendar Creator 12

2007-08-07
I have used Calendar Creator since it first came out (pre broderbund) and have been very happy with it. CC#9 gave me some problems but they seem to have straightened them out in CC12. A lot of the glitches have been ironed out and the program is again fun to use. I recommend Calendar Creator 12 to anyone who makes their own calendars.

the latest upgrade for Calendar Creator

2007-06-06
bought a new IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad T60, my working perfectly copy of Release 9 Calendar Creator would not load on the XP Pro -- yet it works perfectly on my old T42 with XP Pro!!! IBM of course, pointed to the Calendar Creator 9 as the problem -- this Release 12 loaded and works perfect on my new laptop, much cheaper here at Amazon than from Broderbund direct

not bad

2008-07-09
It has a lot of features but it takes some time to figure it all out.

New is not always better

2008-03-08
I recently had to update my fifteen year old version of Calendar Creator v1.0 because it was incompatible with Windows XP but not Windows 2000. I have been using the application to make schedules at work. The old program worked perfectly allowing me to overlap the schedules of 10 different health care providers working at 5 separate sites. I was able to create 10 separate files and combine these files quickly and simply in to separate calendars. I purchased this newer version after calling Broderbund and getting reassurances that the file format of the new version was compatible with the files from the old version. This would save me having to enter data already present on our server.I was happy to find out that the new application did import the old files. Unfortunately the simple intuitive nature of the original application has been completely lost in all the bells and whistles of the new version. There is nothing intuitive about this software.Despite hours of fiddling and reading an extremely cryptic user manual and help menu I gave up and decided to use Outlook. A very disappointing purchase.

Calender creator

2008-02-08
The product would not load on desktop or laptop. Contacted vender and their response was what the symptems were. I replyed and no further response from the vender. Contacted vender again to request a refund or replacement. No rsponse.Calendar Creator 12 Deluxe By Broderbund

Useless

2008-01-27
I had really high hopes for this product but it ended up in the trash.It is not user friendly at all.I was hoping to make a simple folding calendar in the style you see in the stores but it never happened . The reason i was drawn to this software was the ability to insert pictures into the grid of the calendar which is very easy to do beacuse they give you very clear concise directions on how to do this. I never figured out how to insert the art work for the main picture above the calendar grid. This is not mentioned once in the instruction booklet that came with it, or the help section of the software.I even went back to other reviews of the software on Amazon and followed a sugestion made by someone who somehow figured this problem out and that did not work.I tried saving whatever i had done so i could check it out later and see what it was going to look like and it would not let me re-open my creation. there where errors every time i tried to open it and after about 3 times i just gave up and went back to my old Elements4.This is a very fundamental part of calendar creating that they just completly left out of the process. All of the other features of the program are completly useless if you cannot create a simple wall calendar.

HORRIBLE

2008-01-20
I have been a calendar creator user since it was labeled under the name Instant Calendar (this was the fifth version I owned) I have also owned Calendar Creator Vers. 6, 8, and 10. I liked version 6 the best (closest to Instant Calendar) but it does not work with XP. I purchased version 8 for 10 bucks at Office Max a while back, and I got several years use out of it, the only bad thing about it is that it won't print on network printers for some reason.

I only replaced Version 8 with 12 because I lost my version 8 CD and the program corrupted on my main computer. Version 12 opened my old 8 file with no incident, but printing it was another issue. It turned a 10 MB file into a 2 GB file, and would only print 4 pages outo f 12, and take about an hour to do it (bad when you make 17 calendars at a time). I bought version 10 on here because I was having issues with 12, and had the same problem. Ultimately I wound up using a friend's computer with version 8 and had no printing issues whatsoever. I tried to call tech support from broderbund and from encore, and they were of no use at all.

All in all, Calendar Creator used to be a great program, and I cannot recommend version 12, but version 8 (with XP) or earlier versions on other systems is a great program if you can find it on here!