12 hours view in iCal

Greetings,

Don't know which question you are asking, so I'll try and handle both that it could be.

To switch from 24 hour numbering to 12 hour numbering you need to go to System Preferences/International/Formats and either change to a country that has 12 hour formatting, or choose custom and choose 12 hour formatting.

If you want to only see 12 hours on the screen that requires that you change the preference in iCal to show just the number of hours you wish to see, and then scroll the page to where they are where you would like them. Then quit the program and restart, and it will restart with those hours showing.

The latter is my question. Help menu instructions say: To change the days of the week or the number of hours that appear in the main calendar view, choose iCal > Preferences, and make your choices from the Week and Day pop-up menus in the General pane. For example, you can choose to only see the hours from 9AM to 5PM on Monday through Friday.

But I don't have Week and Day pop-up menus. When I set the hours I want to see, all it does is shade the other hours. I would like to see fewer hours so I can see the entire page on one screen.

If you change ICal>Preferences to 24hr view, then put the scroll bar at the bottom, you can see the whole day. You'll still have the shading part. I hope this helps. If someone has something better, it would be helpful to me also.

Greetings,

The work around for that is to select the number of hours that you wish to have visible, and then scroll to the ones that you wish to see. Then quit iCal. Then when you restart iCal it should be showing the hours that you left it with. The other hours are there yet, but scrolled off the screen.

You said:

". . . select the number of hours that you wish to have visible, and then scroll to the ones that you wish to see. Then quit iCal. Then when you restart iCal it should be showing the hours that you left it with. The other hours are there yet, but scrolled off the screen.
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This sounds like jhust what I want to accomplish, but how do I select the hours. The cursor won't drag over the numbers.

Go to iCal Preference and then the General tab. Select the number of hours that you wish to have visible. (I can't remember if you actually want to add two or subtract two from that, but you can experiment to find out.)

Greetings,

No, I'm afraid that there is no way to eliminate the other hours. The best way to do it is to change how many hours are visible, and then scroll to where the hours you wish are the ones in the window.

Hi,
I have the opposite problem. My computer is set to 24-hour time, which I prefer, but iCal insists on writing AM and PM in my monthly calendar view, which takes up lots of space and forces appointments onto 2 lines. How do I change it so iCal times match my 24-hour system time format?
Thanks,
Nat

Greetings,

Then it's the first part of the answer. Go to System Preferences / International and change the format there.

What country do you have set in International?

Dan-

All that does is highlight the hours I've selected and show the other hours in gray. Is there any way to eliminate the other hours?

Carol