The Calendar provides a convenient tool for planning your engagements, particularly when you want to look up dates quickly without leaving the application you are currently working on. Calling the Calendar with with 
C displays the page for the current month, or the month you last looked at:
You use the cursor keys, in combination with
keys, to move about within the calendar as follows:
| Key | Action | Key | Action | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | previous day |  | next day | |
 | previous week |  | next week | |
SHIFT
| previous month |
SHIFT
| next month | |
| | previous year | | next year |
If necessary, the calendar will automatically turn a page to the next or previous month.
The Calendar is accurate back to the year 1753 (when the Gregorian calendar was accepted in England) and so has historical applications in addition to its obvious business uses.
Searching for a day
You can also use the Calendar to go immediately to any date in any year.
Press
Look for: 17/03/1987
will be displayed, with today's date initially displayed. Type in the date you are searching for, and press the
The date can also be entered in the form
17 mar 1987
if you find this more convenient. The Cambridge Z88 defaults to the twentieth century, so 17 mar 87 is equivalent to 17 mar 1987.
Active days
If the Calendar popdown is called from the Diary application, days containing information in the Diary will be identified on the Calendar with a pointer against the date
Such active days can be found in the Calendar very quickly with the commands
| | previous active day | | next active day |