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VueMinder Calendar Help - Getting Started

Current as of Version 7.1.0

Looking for the Pro version documentation? Click here. 

Overview

VueMinder Calendar Lite is a FREE calendar and reminder program for Windows. It supports multiple calendars displayed simultaneously in layers. These can be viewed and printed by day, week, or month. They can also be visually distinguished using any combination of font, background color, and gradient style. VueMinder Calendar Lite also integrates an attractive, semi-transparent calendar into your Windows desktop, so you'll always be able to see your upcoming events.

VueMinder Calendar Lite provides a number of reminder options including popup reminders and desktop alerts. Desktop alerts fade into view unobtrusively in the lower-right corner of the screen. Recently viewed or dismissed reminders are easily accessible and can be redisplayed with a single click.

VueMinder Calendar fully supports the iCalendar standard, allowing subscriptions to calendars located on both your local network or over the web. You can also export to iCalendar files, and use those in other calendar programs. A wide variety of print layouts and styles are also provided, along with a dynamically updating print preview window that allows you to instantly see what will be printed as the various printing options are modified.

For an even more full-featured calendar program, please consider upgrading to VueMinder Calendar Pro. A feature comparison is available here.

Suggested Reading for Getting Started

If you've used other calendar programs in the past, you should already have a fairly good idea of the basic functionality to expect in VueMinder Calendar Lite. However, VueMinder Calendar Lite provides a number of unique or improved features that you won't find anywhere else. To learn more, we recommend reading the following:

• VueMinder Calendar Blog - What's New
• VueMinder Calendar Blog - Using VueMinder Calendar Pro
• Features
• Tips & Tricks
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Main Window
• Event Editor

Context-Sensitive Help

If you ever have a question about how something works in VueMinder Calendar Lite, you can access specific help documentation for the window that you're currently on by either clicking the Help button (located in the lower-left corner of most windows) or by pressing the F1 key. You can also navigate to the help documentation for the window of interest by locating it in the Table of Contents to the left.

Many windows also include a help button on the title bar.

When this is clicked, the mouse cursor will change to show a question mark.

Click on any control that you need help on, and additional information about the control will be provided.

Contact Us

Why upgrade to Pro?

Although we are extremely responsive and helpful to Lite version users, Pro version users always receive top priority for support inquiries. We respond to Lite version support requests after all Pro version support requests have been handled. You will still receive an answer within 24 hours, but you'll get an answer much more quickly if you're using the Pro version.

We hope you enjoy using VueMinder Calendar Lite! We'd appreciate any feedback, feature requests, or bug reports you may have. We doubt you'll find any other company that offers the same level of support that we do for a free software product. You can contact us via email here, or by entering your question in the form below.

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