Sortable event list in iCal?

I have several different calendars set up in iCal. Is there any way to see all events from one calendar (or a selection of calendars) in an editable, sortable list?
I don't see a way to tell if a calendar is empty or not without doing a search, or attempting to delete the calendar first. (iCal lets you delete the calendar if it's empty, but warns you first if it has something in it.) Searching is not an efficient method. If I search for "a," a common vowel likely to be in lots of messages, it still won't bring up my appointment to "Pick up some red plums," so I end up having to repeat the search for each vowel in each calendar.
I've also had duplicate issues when using .Mac. It's really frustrating when you have no idea how many duplicates there are, since you can't see the entire calendar all at once.
A simple sortable list view, like in Mail, would solve both these problems.
I sent feedback to Apple on this, but I'm wondering if anyone here knows of a built in way to do it that I've just missed, or maybe a third party program that would add this functionality.

Don H., I feel your pain.
I just picked up my new MBP from the Apple Store tonight. They imported all of my data, and when I picked up the computer, they took me through each app to make sure all my data had imported correctly. When they showed me iCal, it looked perfect--all of my stuff was there, hour by hour, in Day view. It basically looked just like it did in Snow Leopard. My friend's birthday is today, so I was delighted to see that Event at the top of the hour-by-hour list--that's how I knew my data was there.
When I opened iCal at home, it looks completely different. I now have this horrible formatting with a giant monthly calendar and a list of events on the left. The hour-by-hour list (which is what I use iCal for) is so narrow that I can't read any of the entries in their entirety. I dragged the border as far as I could to maximize the width of the hour-by-hour list and it's still only a little over an inch wide. Meanwhile, the list of events that I DON'T need is 4 to 5 inches wide.
I've looked through all of the help menus and the only options for "viewing the calendar differently" are Day, Week, Month or Year.
What I don't understand is, why did it look normal while I was at the store, but completely different when I got home? If it had looked like this at the store, I could've asked for help while I was there. I'm disappointed in the new format but can't figure out how to get back to what it looked like at the store. Wish I could help. I'll keep watching this discussion to see if you get help. Good luck.

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Don H., I feel your pain.
I just picked up my new MBP from the Apple Store tonight. They imported all of my data, and when I picked up the computer, they took me through each app to make sure all my data had imported correctly. When they showed me iCal, it looked perfect--all of my stuff was there, hour by hour, in Day view. It basically looked just like it did in Snow Leopard. My friend's birthday is today, so I was delighted to see that Event at the top of the hour-by-hour list--that's how I knew my data was there.
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I've looked through all of the help menus and the only options for "viewing the calendar differently" are Day, Week, Month or Year.
What I don't understand is, why did it look normal while I was at the store, but completely different when I got home? If it had looked like this at the store, I could've asked for help while I was there. I'm disappointed in the new format but can't figure out how to get back to what it looked like at the store. Wish I could help. I'll keep watching this discussion to see if you get help. Good luck.

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I manage different calendars, private, work, hobby etc.
Now, I would like to print a list of upcoming events from one of those calendars.
My iPhone has a "list" option that does exactly what I want, but I can't print that.
I have tried File/Print selecting only the wanted calendar and a date span, but I don't get the expected result.
iCal will print ALL the days within the time span, including dates with no entry. I would like to see only a list with events...
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The only way I have found takes a few steps, but it is not too complex.
- It requires the desired events to have a common set of characters in each event so the Search function will pull them out together (e.g., xxx, day, class, etc.).
- These common characters can be in the main event text box at the top of the event, or they can be anywhere in the event (in the location field, in the note section of the event at the bottom, etc.)
- Next, be sure the Calendar is selected on which these events are listed (top left corner click on Calendars and put check in the appropriate box(es).
- Next, click in the Search box in the top right of the main Calendar window and type the common characters set you entered in all the events (e.g., day).
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I would love to have an Event List view in iCal like I do on the calendar on my iPhone. Is there such a thing? The particular reason for wanting it (this time) is that one of the calendars in the ON MY MAC list has a number in a oval to the right.
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ecernek,
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No, the tech was correct - the To-Do list does not transfer to the IPT. Many people feel that it should, but no one on these user-to-user forums can implement that. (As an aside, RE: +"market it as native and complete iCal"+, they don't, at least not that I've seen - and the IPT app is called "Calendar", not iCal.)
I'd encourage you to submit feedback to Apple requesting this feature (they won't "hear" your feedback in these forums):
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html
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Hi There.
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Okay, here is what I've found.
First thought two disclaimers: 1. I am no tech support person - by any means. 2. I'm not even sure if I can recall how I corrected this since I had to go back and forth in so many settings so many times (spending 80 minutes on the phone with a tech support buddy of mine).
But, here goes:
iPhone has to use iCal to sync with Entourage. It's a work around, it *****, but that's the way it goes.
So open iCal and make sure that there is only one Entourage calendar that has been created (there should be a list of calendars with check boxes on the left side), if there are two or more, delete the extra ones (right click, choose delete). I think that if you look in Entourage preferences and under Sync Preferences ever clicked 'sync to iCal' off and then on again, you may have created a second Entourage calendar in the process. When I was doing this, I accidently deleted the original Entourage calendar that I had and the one left over was actually empty - which may have helped me in this process to start 'fresh' and perhaps stop the constant loop of repopulating events between iCal and Entourage.
Make sure that in Entourage preferences under Sync Preferences 'sync to address book' and 'sync to iCal' are both clicked on.
In iSync Preferences, I had to reset the sync history there and start all over again then hit sync on iTunes.
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If ever told there is a conflict in your syncing the calenders, choose Entourage over iCal for all (if this is an option - at first for me, it wasn't and only iCal and iSync were listed as options until eventually, somehow, one popped up with the options of both iCal and Entourage).
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The worst part of all this? I've found no work around to delete the extra events listed in Entourage. You still have to delete the new ones by hand, one by one, even if the above fix works.
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