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While the title says iCal it kinda falls into Apple apps generally and i'm not sure where the solution lies.
A bit of background, I switched from using Entourage to Mail/Address Book/iCal about 18 months ago because of Tiger and Sherlock. For email and addresses this is brilliant because Mail does everything I need, the Address book syncs with my phone using iSync but the one thing I have still not got to grips with is iCal.
I imported my entourage data into iCal, which is (I think) 100% birthdays. However, I can't find a setting to make them all get an alarm other than going into each entry and changing them to alarm.
I suppose I could do that, but the other thing is address book's birthdays don't seem to talk to iCal. Now I tend to add all info for people into address which means that any birthdays I add to address book won't appear in iCal.
So, how does everyone else use iCal to remember birthdays and am I going to have to go into each entry manually?
At the moment I'm keeping hold of entourage and using it as a very glorified PIM, and any new birthdays, unless I remember or am told otherwise pass me by.
I'm now using Open Office Org for MS Office documents, so if I can get this fixed I can ditch my old version of MS Office X which will be good
Also, I may actually use iCal for more than just birthdays!
Thanks in advance
A bit of background, I switched from using Entourage to Mail/Address Book/iCal about 18 months ago because of Tiger and Sherlock. For email and addresses this is brilliant because Mail does everything I need, the Address book syncs with my phone using iSync but the one thing I have still not got to grips with is iCal.
I imported my entourage data into iCal, which is (I think) 100% birthdays. However, I can't find a setting to make them all get an alarm other than going into each entry and changing them to alarm.
I suppose I could do that, but the other thing is address book's birthdays don't seem to talk to iCal. Now I tend to add all info for people into address which means that any birthdays I add to address book won't appear in iCal.
So, how does everyone else use iCal to remember birthdays and am I going to have to go into each entry manually?
At the moment I'm keeping hold of entourage and using it as a very glorified PIM, and any new birthdays, unless I remember or am told otherwise pass me by.
I'm now using Open Office Org for MS Office documents, so if I can get this fixed I can ditch my old version of MS Office X which will be good
Also, I may actually use iCal for more than just birthdays!
Thanks in advance