Month at a Glance

December 31, 2019 3:23 PM

I am trying to find monthly calendars online that I can use in my junior-size ARC planner. I'm finding lots of calendars, but they're all too big for my purposes. Can anyone point me to a source for free, printable 2020 monthly calendar templates that have a portrait orientation and are designed to fit on a 5.5" x 8.5" page?
posted by orange swan to Grab Bag (7 answers total)

If you have access to Microsoft Outlook you can do this - create a new calendar folder called “Blank,” then tweak the print setup to your desired settings.
posted by something something at 4:48 PM on December 31, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Very soon after posting this question I figured out a solution. I found out that print-a-calendar.com has an option for printing out two calendars on a single letter-sized page in a landscape orientation. When I cut these pages in half, I had two calendar pages that were just the right size for my planner. I printed off a year's worth of calendars, cut them in half, punched them with my ARC hole punch, and inserted them in my planner.

And now I'm all ready for 2020.:D
posted by orange swan at 5:15 PM on December 31, 2019 [3 favorites]

Calendarsthatwork.com has the option to do two calendars on one 8.5x11 and should be able to get you where you want to get.

Preview: Ah, that too. Adding just in case it's a better solution for you.
posted by General Malaise at 5:16 PM on December 31, 2019

Response by poster: Feel free to add any other ideas you come up with, everyone. I will be doing this every year going forward, so if there's a better option I'll be glad to be able to use it in subsequent years. For instance, the calendar I used is very bare bones and doesn't have holidays marked on it, and it would be nice to have that some year in future.
posted by orange swan at 5:18 PM on December 31, 2019

(Calendarsthat work has an option to add Canadian holidays :) )
posted by General Malaise at 5:21 PM on December 31, 2019

Etsy has a plethora of printable calendars for sale in many sizes/configurations/price points, if you want to spend a little money on it.
posted by sarajane at 6:16 AM on January 1, 2020

Generally you can manually change your printer settings to do multiple pages per sheet like that with anything. The exact steps vary, but try opening up a print dialogue screen and poking through the "settings" and/or "advanced" sections. At very least you should be able to scale to arbitrary percentages, at which point you can just trim off the extra paper (or if your printer can handle it, cut down the paper first, since you're looking for a reasonably standard size). Or, since this is just an annual thing with only 12 pages and max efficiency doesn't really matter, you could also screenshot the calendars you like and put them in Word (or similar), either on pages set the size you want and then printed multiple per sheet, or into two-cell tables with invisible borders if that's easier for you.
posted by teremala at 6:25 AM on January 1, 2020