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:

 

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: 17/03/1987

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 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

 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