lol. I'm so used to the tool bar I keep forgeting to look in the view menu or memorising shortcuts lol! thanks for that. On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> Margaret, > Go to the View menu on the iCal menu bar. You will see view by month there. > Alternatively use the shortcut command+3. > All the best.... > > Paul Hopewell > On 4 Feb 2012, at 10:08, Margaret Booth wrote: > >> Thanks for your help on ical. I have followed your suggestions and I now am >> able to navigate around ical quiet well. I have one question which is where >> do I find view by month. I went into preferences and found how to do it by >> week or day not by month. I hope you can help. >> >> Margaret >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hopewell >> Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 2:55 AM >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: Help with Ical >> >> Hello Margaret, >> I am running the latest version of Mac OS 10.7 (Lion). I have set iCal up to >> only have a single calendar and have checked the box saying "show event >> times" in calendar preferences. I use the view by month. I can use the Tab >> key to move forwards through calendar entries in chronological order and >> Shift+Tab to move backwards in chronological order (that only works >> correctly if you only have a single calendar). I avoid all day events as >> these are shown out of sequence using the tab key. Instead I show the all >> day event as starting at 07:00 and ending at 23:00. I also avoid having a >> separate birthdays calendar for the same reason. At the end of the month I >> press command+right_arrow to got to the next month. >> >> The easiest way to add an iCal event is to press command+n to create a new >> event and then type something like.... >> >> Dinner with Ken 23 February 19:30 to 23:30 >> >> and then press Enter. This will bring up a short dialogue with one line >> titled "event details" and a line "delete" and a line "done". If its just a >> simple one off event just move the Vo cursor to the "done" button and press >> that button. If its complicated like a repeating event interact with "event >> details" and enter the repeat pattern. then stop interacting with "event >> details" and press the "done" button as above. >> >> iCal works very nicely for me this way and is very easy to use. I have >> several complicated repeating events like one which alternates between the >> second tuesday of one month and the second Wednesday of the next month. I >> can tell you how to do this if it is not obvious. I use iCloud to replicate >> with the calendar on my iPhone. On my iPhone I use the list view which then >> shows the events in chronological order. >> >> Hope this helps. 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