Never used iCal before and it is bewlidering to me.

Hi,
I am trying to set up iCal so that I can remember to pay my bills by a specific date. I have read the help files but am still not quite getting it. What is the best entry to use for something like that? I thought it was something like a to do list but am not sure.
I want to have an alarm go off and also have a check box for when it is completed. Can someone help walk me through an entry or point to me to something that is more straight forward than the help files. They are VERY ambiguous and so leave me flustered.
Thank you very much.

Could this work? Or am I not understanding your problem?
You can open iCal & create a "Bills" calendar.
Go to the date your bill is due, or a period of time before, and double click to create an entry.
When the event info window opens up, give the event a name, i.e., Phone due by 15th, or something that works.
You can click "all-day" so it doesn't show appointment times.
Under "repeat" click the appropriate - every month, every year, whatever.
Then you can set an alarm or multiple alarms. You can create a message alarm, which will open on your computer, and/or an email alarm to send to yourself.
There's no check box for the calendar, so when I've paid that bill, I edit the event name to add "XX" to it so I know by looking at the calendar it's been done. When you edit a repeating event it will ask if you want to edit just the one occurrence or all, so you just edit the current.
iCal to-do's are pretty useless as far as I'm concerned.

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