Getting Started with Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger

Lesson 2. How to Set Up Your Calendar

Time

This lesson takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Goals

To organize and track your appointments for home and work; to create a custom calendar; and to use iCal’s visual tools to keep everything instantly accessible and easy to use.

You’re going to set up your calendar (it’s just like a regular calendar, where you can view holidays or note appointments, birthdays, work stuff, etc.). The idea behind iCal is to give you a simple way to differentiate all your various appointments with just a quick glance at your calendar. You do this by color coding your appointments. For example, you can have all your work appointments appear in one color (let’s say green, for example), and all your home appointments ...