My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Automatically Creating a Birthdays Calendar

Once you've stored birthdays in your Address Book, you can create a Birthdays calendar in iCal. Here's how to do so:

1. Start the iCal program. (If the iCal icon isn't on the Dock, double-click the iCal icon in the Applications folder.)

2. Select iCal ▸ Preferences. A Preferences window appears.

3. Click the General icon. The General window appears.

4. Select the Show Birthdays calendar checkbox, as shown in Figure 21-4.

   

   Figure 21-4. Selecting the Show Birthdays calendar checkbox displays birthdays in iCal.

5. Click the close button of the General window. The iCal window appears again, displaying a Birthdays calendar under ...