I am attempting to have different colors for Christian, Islamic,
Jewish, and US Holidays. I have tried changing the colors on the
default categories, adding new categories, and every other thing I can
think of, but they keep defaulting back to the same pinkish color for
ALL holidays.
Is there something that I am missing?
Yes. Events can have more than one category, and it's the designated Primary
category which shows the color.
When you import a specific Holiday file (e.g. Christian, Islamic, Jewish, or
US) all its events are imported with two categories each - the specific
category you chose, plus Holiday (generic) category. And it's Holiday
category which is primary, and shows the color. This is actually how most
people seem to like it - you can sort by specific category but view just as
Holiday.
This is how to get what you want:
1) In the Calendar area, go to File/New/Custom View.
2) Make a new custom view:
Name : Christian
Item Types: ˆ Calendar event [only]
Criteria:
Category Is <Christian>
Click OK
3) Go to this Christian view. It will contain all the Christian holidays
even though the primary category is Holiday.
4) Select one, and press cmd-A to select All.
5) Either with control-click on the selection to get a contextual menu,
select Categories, or in Edit menu/Categories, select the Assign Categories
menu item at the top. That opens the big Categories window.
6) You should see both "Holiday" and "Holiday - Christian" already checked,
with "Holiday" font in bold. Select "Holiday - Christian" without
unchecking it (don't click the checkbox), and click "Set Primary" button at
the bottom of the window. Click OK.
7) Now you'll see all the Christian holidays in their own color.
8) Repeat for Islamic, Jewish, US.
NOTE: I'd recommend that in step 6 you NOT uncheck generic "Holiday". there
are some cases where it will be very useful to have as a secondary category
for sorting purposes. But it's up to you. Simply making the specific
category primary will set the color as you wish.
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