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One of the tasks I hate doing is adding multiple records to iCal. For example, each year I like to add entries for the Formula 1 races* but with eighteen races in 2008 this becomes fairly boring and repetitive with a lot of copying and pasting from whichever source I decide to use. Bento allows me to take some of the tedium out of this by getting the data into a simple CSV file and then import it into the iCal Events Library of Bento.

1. Occasionally you can find the data you want as a CSV file on the web. A Google search for ‘2008 f1 csv’ revealed a site, Junction34.com, with the calendar as a CSV file. If you cannot find the data then you will have to take a more hands-on approach and enter the data yourself, preferably into something like Numbers which can export a CSV file.
2. The CSV file can then be imported into Bento, directly into the iCal Library.




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3. Once the data has been imported you may need to change the Calendar since imported data defaults to ‘Bento’.

* I realise that there are iCals available on site such as iCalShare but I usually just want specific details such as the date and location and to set it as an all-day event.

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