ICal: How to hIghlight today in month view?

In the iCal 'month view' is there a setting to have it hIghlight the current day? I had been using Palm Desktop for years and found that feature useful for directing my eyes to the current day.

Snags40,
The "Today" highlighting feature in iCal is not user selectable, and admittedly dim. The only things that have improved the visibility for me have been to change the angle at which I view the screen, and by choosing a different color profile in System Preferences...>Displays>Color>Display Profile: Uncheck "Show profiles for this display only," and choose a different profile, or you can also use the "Calibrate..." selection to choose a user specified profile for your screen.
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Snags40,
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;~)

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Hi Richard,
I believe there is an option for this in iCal's Preferences.
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Steve,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Quit iCal, find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder, drag it to your Desktop, log out/in or restart and try again.
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Greetings,
I have a vague recollection of someone else with this issue but haven't experienced it myself nor encountered it recently.
Troubleshooting:
1.) First make an iCal backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2966.
2.) Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical and / or "ical"
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
__NOTE: Removing these files will remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Once the computer is back up and running open iCal and test.
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Im experiencing problems viewing my month view, i run my business which is holiday lets, off my ICal.
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Whenever installing a new version, at least review the information about new features.
Turn off the infernal Align To Pixel Grid feature.
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