You can highlight squares singly or in blocks by selecting the color you want then painting with your mouse.

There are 5 available colors and you choose what category you want each to represent (Holiday, Sickness, Training etc). You can also select the start of your holiday year, and the Planner will adjust its display to suit, enabling coverage of two calendar years.

Unlike the wall version, one click on a menu gives you total days booked and total days taken, for all employees by category for the time being taken off. Another improvement to the wall version is the ability to select previous and future years (this can save a lot of wall space!!!)

It can be run across a local or wide area Windows network - one machine is designated as master during set-up, and all others as slaves. Data is held centrally on the master computer.

The master computer can administer all employees, but slaves can only administer staff entered on that slave computer - this enables satellite offices to administer their own staff whilst being able to view all staff. All staff are viewable on all machines.

It is possible to record individual leave entitlement, and the Staff Totals screen will highlight in red any employee who has booked more than their holiday entitlement.