Show and hide multiple iCal calendars

Feb 04, '05 09:37:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I've been wanting to find a way to quickly show and hide multiple calendars in iCal. I was beginning to look into AppleScript options, when I decided to try a typical Mac trick and discovered this. As far as I can tell, it's not in the hints database...

  1. First, the obvious ... each calendar can be individually shown or hidden by clicking on the check box next to its name
  2. Command-clicking on any visible calendar's check box hides all calendars.
  3. Command-clicking on any hidden calendar's check box shows all other hidden calendars.
  4. Command-Option-clicking on a calendar's check box (shown or hidden) hides all other calendars, leaving only the selected calendar visible.
[robg adds: If you have a lot of iCal calendars, these can be nice timesavers. These are documented in the Help: iCal Keyboard Shortcuts page, but they are not very well explained. For instance, the page states that the Command-Option click shortcut will "Check or uncheck only the selected calendar in the Calendars list." I assumed that meant it was the same as a normal click, not that it would do a "hide all showing only this one." There's a useful keyboard shortcut hiding in that file as well -- press Command-Option-backtick (`) with a calendar selected, and all other calendars will be temporarily hidden, until you release the keys.]

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