The Calendar popdown
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 C displays the page for the current month, or the month you last looked at:
You use the cursor keys, in combination with and keys, to move about within the calendar as follows:
Key | Action |
| Key | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
| ||
symb_left.png | previous day |
symb_right.png | next day | |
symb_up.png | previous week | symb_down.png | next week | |
previous month | next month | |||
symb_diamond.png symb_up.png | previous year | symb_diamond.png symb_down.png | 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 , and the prompt
Look for: 17/06/2015
will be displayed, with today's date initially displayed. Type in the date you are searching for, and press the key. The cursor will move to the specified day.
The date can also be entered in the form
17 jun 15
if you find this more convenient. The Cambridge Z88 defaults to the twenty first century now so 20 will be put in front of the two digit year.
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
For example like the symbol to the left of 17 on the screen shot above.
Such active days can be found in the Calendar very quickly with the commands
symb_square.png symb_left.png | previous active day |
| symb_square.png symb_right.png | next active day |
International
If a different Keyboard is selected in the Panel, the wording reflecting the change of language will be displayed.