Modify iCal events in 10.5 via drag-and-drop Bossier City LA

Use drag-and-drop to (somewhat) ease the task of editing events in the 10.5 version of iCal

Local Companies

Elliott Electric Supply Inc
(318) 746-5712
2414 Montgomery Ln
Bossier City, LA
Aucoin's Hardware
(985) 384-2271
430 Levee Rd
Morgan City, LA
Bayou Boeuf Electric Llc
(985) 876-1791
1737 Grand Caillou Rd
Houma, LA
Consolidated Electrical Distributors
(504) 733-9000
620 Time Saver Ave
New Orleans, LA
Cajun Breakers Inc
(985) 702-1004
221 Railroad Ave
Morgan City, LA
Electrical Wholesalers Inc
(225) 751-6631
6631 Exchequer Dr
Baton Rouge, LA
Oilstate Electric Supply Co Inc
(985) 868-5015
187 Corporate Dr
Houma, LA
L & H Electric
(985) 876-6590
444 Magnolia St
Houma, LA
H V Sales Co Inc
(225) 291-2314
2444 Woodland Ridge Blvd
Baton Rouge, LA
Elliott Electric Supply
(318) 398-9757
106 Industrial St
West Monroe, LA

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As much as I dislike the event info window in OS X 10.5's version of iCal-I dislike it enough that it made my list of Leopard annoyances-anything I can do to make working with that window simpler is a win in my book. In that vein, today's hint will allow you to do make some basic modifications to an event without opening the event's editing window. Instead, you can use drag-and-drop.

First double-click the event you'd like to modify. But instead of clicking Edit, try using drag and drop. You can drag and drop a file from the Finder, and it will be added as an attachment to the event. Drag and drop a person (or more than one person, or even a group) from Address Book, and they'll be added as attendees. Drag in a URL, and it's added as a (clickable) URL. Drag and drop some text, and it's added as a note.

If your event has existing attendees, the newly-dragged people will be added to the list. If the event has a clickable URL, it will be replaced by the dropped URL. If you've got an existing note, however, your dropped text will "spring back" and not be accepted by the window in iCal.

Until (hopefully!) Apple fixes the mess it made of iCal's event input in OS X 10.6, little tips like this can make things a bit simpler-still far from ideal, but a bit more bearable.


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