Can't View More than 1 Calendar at a time

Question

Hi, Just got my first mac since 1992, and starting tofigure it all out.  iCal is giving me a headache.  It looks NOTHING like any of the screenshots I've seen from Apple... first off it's got goldmenus, not system default colors.  (iCal 5 in Lion).
I managed to get it to pull calendar information from my Google calendar,which is great.  But...  I have like 4-5 different labels in Google calendars,and 3-4 different imported calendars in Google (family, school, work). But they all appear in separate windows, I can't for the life of me figure outhow to view them all on one calendar, in one window.
Somehow, the only way I can look at different schedules is to goto the "windows" menu, and open up the window for that thing. They are all there, but they all open separate windows.
And, aside from that, it's only like week, month, yearview.  No week view with lists of things on either side like the screenshots.  I'm so confused, I've looked through every menu, and goggled forlike an hour trying to find an answer, and so far, I can't find ANY way to makeiCal usable.  What's going on here?  There has to be some "viewall in one window" option... otherwise, what's the point?  Who wantsto have to open 7-8 different windows to check what's going on at 9am onThursday?  That's kind of worthless.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

Hi,
From the iCal menu select Preferences... > Accounts tab. Select your Google account in the list and click the Delegation tab. Once the list of Google sub calendars has been populated there, check the ones you want to see in your main iCal window.
Then go to the main iCal window click the Calendars button then check the calendars you want visible at any one time.
The iCal UI has changed a huge amount in Lion from that in Snow Leopard and before. Looking at screenshots of previous versions is going be confusing.
Best wishes
John M