Banners

MPC can display banners on the monthly calendars.  Banners are events or notes that you want displayed across two or more days.

Creating Banners

You create banners while viewing the monthly calendar window.  To create a banner, hold down the "Command" key then click and drag a rectangle through the days you want the banner to cover.  You must start the banner within a day rectangle and finish the banner on at least the next day.  A banner can only be a week long.  When you release the mouse, a dialog box will ask you to enter the text for the banner.  If you enter text with more than one character the calendar will be drawn showing your new banner.

You can set the font, style, color, pen size and pattern for the rectangle in the fonts window.  The box can be a single box, a shadow box, a double box or a double box with a thick line. The banner rectangle can also be positioned vertically within the daily rectangle while viewing the Fonts window.  Click and drag the rectangle to the desired location.  The box size depends on the size of the font chosen for the banner.

When you click and drag for a banner MPC checks to see if any portion of your new banner conflicts with an existing banner.  If it does, the existing banner or banners is deleted before the new banner is created.

Deleting Banners

To delete a banner from a month, open the Notes window.  The banner notes will be labeled with the word "Banner" for the time.  If you select one of the elements of the banner and click on the "Delete" button, the entire banner will be deleted.  You cannot delete individual banner notes on the daily lists.  This could leave orphan notes in the note lists. The other way to delete a banner is to drag across the current banner and when the input dialog box appears click on the "OK" button without entering a note.  This will delete the existing note.