Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

Figure 11-17. iCal in Leopard (Week view)
The view buttons in the toolbar (and the associated menu bar items) control the calendar
view and whether it will display a single day, a week, or a whole month. The Day view (select
View ➤ by Day or press Cmd+1) provides the most information, at a glance, about any events
that are occurring that day, and if you have a very crowded calendar, it’s about the only view that
will help you make sense of it. In the Month view (select View ➤ by Month or press Cmd+3),
there is limited space to provide much information about a single event, but it does give you a
nice view of future and past dates (and makes scrolling to a future or past date much quicker,
though the Mini Months calendar could serve this purpose as well). The Week view (select
View ➤ by Week or press Cmd+2) provides a nice compromise between the two. In the end, you
will likely find the view, or combination of views, that generally works best for how you work.
Adding Calendars to iCal
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A nice feature of iCal is the ability to add and display multiple calendars at the same time within
iCal. This feature is not only useful as a way to organize your events, but it also allows you to
selectively share and view certain types of events.
By default, iCal starts you out with two sensible calendars: Home and Work. However, if
you’d like to add another, simply click the + button below the Calendars List area, select File ➤
New Calendar (Opt+Cmd+N) from the menu bar, or select New Calendar from the contextual
menu that appears when you right-click in the Calendar list. This will create a new calendar and
highlight the name for editing. If you select Get Info from a calendar item’s contextual menu,
then you can add a description for that calendar and select a display color that all events associated
with that calendar will appear in.
If you’d like, you can also organize calendars into calendar groups. To create a calendar
group, select File ➤ New Calendar Group (Shift+Cmd+N) from the menu bar or New Group
from the Calendar list area’s contextual menu. Then you can drag individual calendars into that
group.