Modify iCal events in 10.5 via drag-and-drop Des Moines IA

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

Local Companies

Graybar Electric Company Inc
(515) 243-8611
600 E 4th St
Des Moines, IA
Crescent Electric Supply Co
(515) 283-2331
313 SW 5th St
Des Moines, IA
Integrated Systems & Controls
(515) 289-1654
3816 36th St
Des Moines, IA
Siemens Furnace Controls
(515) 986-0723
5261 NW 114th St
Des Moines, IA
Wesco Distribution
(515) 244-8611
2301 Fleur Dr
Des Moines, IA
Brunia-Johnson Electric Supply
(515) 244-5166
524 SE 5th St
Des Moines, IA
Stitzell Electric Supply Co Inc
(515) 243-3425
107 12th St
Des Moines, IA
Echo Electric Supply
(515) 282-4771
4771 NW 2nd St
Des Moines, IA
Larry's Radio & Tv Service
(712) 275-4577
203 S Main St
Schaller, IA
Rockwell International Corporation
(319) 645-2200
2855 Heartland Dr
Coralville, IA

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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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