Colors in iCal

Why do some calendar events have a colored dot and some a colored backgriound in OSX?
Is there a way to fix this?
Also I change the colors to what I want and they change back to I guess the default.

Hi,
The events with dots are events with a start time, the ones with the coloured background are all day events.
The colours reverting could be the server you are linking to overwriting the prefernce. Are you using iCloud.
Best wishes
John Maisey

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