how do you change color of an event in a calendar in ical

Good luck.

It requires exactly the same amount of keystrokes as having 1 calendar and an event type selector would, or as 1 calendar and a color selector would. If the label said color instead of calendar it would be identical.

Yes.

It's a fuss over a label 😐

Actually, this is a problem if you're using Exchange:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4746

"If your iCal calendars are administered through a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 or later (for example, through your workplace), you have a main Exchange calendar named Calendar, and a main reminder list named Tasks.

You can add calendars to your Exchange calendar account. However, you won’t be able to see updated invitations or attendee responses for the events in these additional calendars. Also, events in the additional calendars won’t be visible to delegates and won’t appear when other users check your availability. You can only use these features in your Exchange calendar named Calendar."

So in my case, I'm not able to create calendars of other colors as they will not be reflected back to the Exchange server.

That is my exact issue as well... as soon as I change the color of an eent in iCal, it disappears on the Exchange calendar my admin has access to. I really don't understand why we can't do something as simple as changing the color of an event.

It's all very well creating a different calendar (category) for each type of events to colour code them but they still appear as grey dots on the Month view defeating the whole point of colour coding?

Saracen1 wrote:

It's all very well creating a different calendar (category) for each type of events to colour code them but they still appear as grey dots on the Month view defeating the whole point of colour coding?

Then use something else.

PLEASE APPLE ADD COLOR TAGGING TO EVENTS!!! Color tag events its a basic need....as a new user I can believe that I can Tag color events?????

I found something very funny: I can color tag different type of events in the SAME calendar with different colors in iCal on my iPhone 4S with IOS 7.1 . However iCal on my Macbook Pro with OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 does NOT have this feature !!

traveller1948 wrote:

I found something very funny: I can color tag diffrent type of events in the SAME calendar with different colors in iCal on my iPhone 4S with IOS 7.1

I can't do that on mine, tell me how.

SORRY 😮 I am NOT using the iCal on my iPhone 4S but WEEK CALENDAR from UtiliTap. Check it out on http://www.weekcal.com/. I am so utterly used to this particular calendar that I complete forgot iCal on my iPhone. In WeekCal you will see the colors but in iCal you won't see them. WeekCal will sync with iCal without problems.

Thanks

These are screen shots from WeekCal 🙂

I've been reading threads for 2 hours trying to solve this color coding problem and I'm more confused than before I began.

I understand the color coding for individual calendars, but in Year-View multi-day events created on different "Calendars" within iCal all show Yellow even though Yellow is not a Color Code for either of the displayed calendars.

I've attached a screenshot of my calendar for 2015 with 2 Calendars enabled Work is Green and Play is Orange. I have multi-day events in each calendar but they all show up as the same color. How can I change the color of the Events to reflect the different events?

I'm not syncing to anything else, I'm not sharing or anything else, this is just on my own Mac ONLY.

Here is the same calendar with my Work Calendar turned off

Any suggestions on how to make all events from a particular calendar show up as the color I selected for the calendar would be appreciated.