The Monthly Outside Days GridOption (which is only enabled if the current GridTemplate is a monthly grid, or a weekly grid using month fit inside an insert or a daily grid using month fit inside an insert) is used to specify how to handle days which do not belong to the current month (see diagram below).

This is an important option, as many checkerboard monthly layouts (very popular in the US) consist of 5 or 6 weeks, where the first of the month may fall on any day of the top week.

Usually we do not wish for the days before the first of the month to appear, nor the days after the end of the month, or we may wish to display them using different typographical attributes.

To achieve these effects, you are given the choice of hiding or showing these outside days.

Exceptions

When using either of the 2 delete options below, you can use never delete tokens to specify, selectively, that some textboxes should never be deleted, regardless of the tokens within that textbox, or of the setting used here in the Monthly Outside Days settings.

Special case

Monthly Outside Days options will be ignored, for any token whose date has been shifted by the nResult action of a macro. That is to say, these tokens will never trigger any of the monthly outside days settings, such as deletion, group deletion, or text format changes. It is the responsibility of your macro to provide any such resulting actions, if needed.

Hiding Outside Days

There are 3 different methods of hiding/ignoring the result of tokens that correspond to dates that are outside the month:   Blank The token is simply replaced by nothing. Other tokens and text in the same textbox are not affected. This is a useful option when tokens of many different DayValues are in the same textbox. Delete The textbox containing the token will be deleted. This means that any other token in the same textbox will also be hidden, since the containing textbox has been deleted. Group Delete Similar to delete, above, but in addition, any object (such as PictureBoxes, lines, …) that is grouped to that textbox will also be deleted.

Showing Outside Days

If you wish to show the outside days of a monthly grid then you can specify the text formatting to apply to dates before and dates after the month.

•When you click on the ellipsis (...) button, the standard text formatting dialog comes up.

•If you only wish to show outside days without modifying their attributes, then click on the x button to clear any previously entered attributes.

•If you only want some of the tokens to use a specific formatting, then you can add the ignore outside days formatting token suffix to the tokens that you do not want to be affected.

Effect on Mini-calendars

The Monthly Outside Days settings do not affect how the mini-calendar dates markers are displayed, as these depend on another set of options.

Also, tokens inside a mini-calendar are not affected by the Monthly Outside Days settings, unless the :HidTok modifier is used.

Topic 107074, last updated on 05-Nov-2026