Using ical as a central family calendar

I want to be able to use ical remotely to manage our family's schedule and have it possible for both my wife and I to add items to it and delete items from it. I do not want to purely sync because then she will be stuck with all of my work appointments. Is this possible? I downloaded a program Cozi, but its presentation is terrible in comparison to ical. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you doing this with iCloud? If you both have the same iCloud account you can only sync all calendars but she can uncheck the ones she doesn't want to see.
If you have different iCloud accounts you can share selected calendars privately - please see this page:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a9479
and expand 'Share a private calendar or reminder list with specific people'.

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com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
com.apple.iCal.plist
com.apple.iCalExternalSync.plist
com.apple.syncserver.plist
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This is my first attempt at using this forum so please be patient with me. I am new to the apple world. Bought an Imac desktop computer back in October and installed Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 because I was used to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and outlook. Now I am being told that I should be using ical for my calendar so that I will be better able to move to icloud for use between my Imac, Ipad2, and Iphone.
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Here is a problem.
My default calendar program is Outlook 2011.
I have an iCal synchronizing with my google calendar and outlook to sync with iCal via Sync Services - so in theory my outlook calendar should be synchronized with Google.
I setup in iCal's preferences my google calendar as default (because iCal synchronizing only Google calendar not the other calendars on my mac) so at this stage, if I use iCal to add new remainder/appointment it is store by iCal in default calendar (which I setup to be my google calendar) and is synchronizing with goggle calendar right away.
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Hi Maxulus,
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Thanks, I tried ALL of the above, BUT found no success.
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We have four family members in our household, and each person has their own separate iCloud ID: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] This allows each of us to have a separate email address, separate 5GB of storage, etc. I have set up Family Sharing on all our devices. I am the Family Organizer (in Apple terminology).
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Hi pomme4moi,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
When you set up Family Sharing and added your family members, this should have created a shared iCloud calendar called Family that the other four iCloud accounts can use.
Family Sharing creates a family calendar where everyone can view, add, or change events and appointments, and they can also get an alert when something changes. And anyone can use the Reminders app to send time or location reminders to the family. So when it’s picture day, pizza night, or just a trip to the beach, everyone’s in the know.
From:
Family Sharing
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Best Regards,
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