# A question about iCal (macOS 10.14.4)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900 "2019-04-22T18:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900/1 "2019-04-22T18:19:01Z")

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I usually use iCal in Week view. Is there any way to force iCal to make the left-most day in the calendar Today (as opposed to a given day of the week?). In general, I don’t have much of a need to see what happened before today, and when the end of the week comes around, seeing more of the past than the future is annoying.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900/2 "2019-04-22T18:28:29Z")

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On my work computer right now so I can’t manually change the date to test it (it will mess a lot of other stuff up), but this might work:

Calendar\>Preferences\>Scroll in week view by: “Week, Stop on Today”

ETA: actually it appears I’m running 10.12.6 on this thing, so you may have different preferences options.

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**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900/3 "2019-04-22T18:35:40Z")

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It appears that in preferences, you can set “Scroll in Week View” to “Week, Stop on Today.” Does that do what you want?

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**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900/4 "2019-04-22T18:45:04Z")

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> [@DCnDC](#):
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> On my work computer right now so I can’t manually change the date to test it (it will mess a lot of other stuff up), but this might work:
> 
> Calendar\>Preferences\>Scroll in week view by: “Week, Stop on Today”
> 
> ETA: actually it appears I’m running 10.12.6 on this thing, so you may have different preferences options.
> 
> .

> [@Twoflower](#):
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> It appears that in preferences, you can set “Scroll in Week View” to “Week, Stop on Today.” Does that do what you want?

Well, what do you know? I would swear I had checked this before but, yeah, that seemed to do the trick.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-ical-macos-10-14-4/832900/5 "2019-04-23T12:50:24Z")

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Nitpick: Apple replace iCal with Calendar starting with 10.8