ICal 3.0.7 alarms?

Help file says to add an alarm by double-clicking the event, and then clicking on "Edit" in the Event Editor. I do not have an edit button in the Event Editor. I can add attendees, attachments, notes, and a url, but nothing about adding an alarm.

Janice,
One of the first things to try is "refresh" the com.apple.iCal.plist file. You will find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. Quit iCAl, drag the .plist file to your Desktop, log out/in or restart and check iCal for normal behavior.
Additionally, If you updated to 10.5.7 using Software Update, try downloading and installing the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update.
;~)

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Hello,
I would appreciate some help on the following issue I have:
When I create a new appointment within iCal on my mac (Alarm set to "off"), a few seconds later the appointment appears on my iPhone via iCloud.
Problem: Alarm is set to "on", to go off when the appointment starts.
Both iCal and Calenders on my iPhone have the default settings for the alarm set to "off" correctly.
I have removed and restarted iCloud Calenders on both Mac and iPhone.
The problem persists.
What can I do?
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I've managed to work around this by either
a) only add events in the iCloud.com calendar
or, if you have to add an event in Mountain Lion's Calendar app:
1) go to icloud.com afterwards, edit the event, add an alert for whenever (doesn't really matter), click "OK" to save.
2) edit the event again, remove the alert you just saved.
If you just have one iOS device it might be easier to post-edit the event there.
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