Settings

To display the Settings window, click the Settings button on the Pop-up Excel Calendar toolbar in Excel 2000/XP/2003, or click the Settings button on the Pop-up Calendar ribbon tab in Excel 2007. The Settings window is where you can control how the pop-up calendar works for you.

Excel Version	Settings Window
Excel 2003 (Windows XP)	(Click to enlarge)
Excel 2007 (Windows Vista)	(Click to enlarge)

When to Display In-Cell Button

By default, the in-cell icon button is displayed automatically when you click a cell which is:

• Formatted as date. To set the format of a cell in Excel, right click the cell and choose Format Cells. On the Number tab choose Date in the Category list, and then choose a proper date format in the Type list.
• Filled with a date-like value. For example, if a cell is formatted as "General" but has a date-like value "September 1 2006", Pop-up Excel Calendar will display the in-cell icon button when you click the cell.
• Underneath a cell with a date value or format in it. For example, if a cell has a "General" format and its value is empty, Pop-up Excel Calendar still can display the in-cell icon button if the cell on the top of it has a date value or format.
• Underneath a cell that has some form of the word "date" in it.

You can enable or disable the above options respectively in the Settings window, which can be opened by clicking the Settings button on the Pop-up Excel Calendar toolbar, or clicking the Settings button on the pop-up calendar window.

Installation Mode (Excel 2007 Only)

In Excel 2007, the classic menu and toolbar based user interface is replaced by a ribbon-based new user interface. Pop-up Excel Calendar can be installed as either a separate tab Pop-up Calendar in the ribbon, or a group in the standard Insert tab. You can change the installation mode by choosing the corresponding option in the "Install this program as" field on the Settings window (See the figure above).

If you change the installation mode from "A group in Insert tab" to "A separate tab" or vice visa, you may or may not be asked to restart Excel 2007, depending on the version of Windows you are running and the type of your Windows account (Administrator, Limited user, etc.). If you see the following message, simply exit Excel and then start it again to make the changes take effect.

Setting Default Date Format

If the target cell is not formatted as date, you can choose to have Pop-up Excel Calendar set a date format automatically. This option can be enabled or disabled in the Settings window, which can be opened by clicking the Settings button on the Pop-up Excel Calendar toolbar, or clicking the Settings button on the pop-up calendar window.

To specify the default date format, enter a format string in the box underneath the Apply the following date format if the target cell is not formatted as date checkbox.

A date format string is constructed with format codes, which describe how you want to display date. For example, if your default date format is "mm/dd/yyyy", "September 1, 2006" will be formatted as "09/01/2006". The following tables shows you all the valid codes that you can use in the date format string.

In addition to any valid combinations of the above format codes, you can also enter "dddd" and "ddd" as the date format string.

Displaying Calendar Automatically

By default Pop-up Excel Calendar displays an in-cell icon button when you click a date cell. You need to click the in-cell icon button to open the calendar on which you click to select the date value.

The "Display calendar automatically" option on the Settings window saves one click by displaying the calendar automatically. If you check this option, the calendar is displayed automatically along with the in-cell icon button whenever you click a date cell.