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If you are like me, you have MANY calendars to deal with.  You also may have many shared calendars from other people.  It is an easy thing to switch to viewing only 1 calendar if you need to quickly see events for just that one.  Here is a video on how to display just one specific calendar , if you prefer. 1- find the calendar you want to see in the left side list. 2- click on the calendar options (the 3 stacked dots) - 3 - select Display this only to see events for just that calendar - That's it!

If you are like me, you have MANY calendars to deal with.  You also may have many shared calendars from other people.  It is an easy thing to control which calendars appear in your list on the left side the calendar - so you only see the calendars needed right now.   Here is a video on how to hide or show calendars from the list, if you prefer. First, how to hide a calendar. 1 - click on the "More menu" (3 vertical dots) to the right of the name of the calendar you wish to hide: 2 - in the menu that pops-up, select Hide from list: That's it! The calendar will not show up in your list anymore: Second, how to add a calendar back to that list - 1 - click on the More menu and choose the Settings and sharing option for any calendar: 2. When list of calendars appear, any that have been hidden will have an eyeball icon with a slash through it.  Click on that icon to have a calendar show back up:

The Google Classroom calendar has the flexibility of being stand-alone within Classroom, or viewable with your other calendars within Google Calendar.  Here is how to view it as an additional calendars within Google Calendar: Log into Google Classroom, navigate to the class you want to display in Calendar.  Click on the About tab - On the new screen, click on Open in Google Calendar - A new tab will open up to your Google Calendar, and a pop-up box will ask if you want to add this calendar.  Click on Yes to all the calendar - The calendar will now be viewable along with your other calendars in Google Calendar -

Today I discovered something quite by accident, but it is a hack worth knowing. There have been many times when working in a Google Spreadsheet that I have dealt with numbers and dates that I want to display as I type them .  I don't want it to auto-format the date to standard, nor drop the 0 on the front end of a number that needs it to display.  There is a HACK to do this!  Did you know that??  I didn't - and I read a LOT of Google blogs, and follow a lot of Google support groups.  So I figure it must be worth sharing. Here's the hack - add an apostrophe to the front of it.  Yup, that's it. If you type '09264 into the cell, this is what you get: No apostrophe shows, just the number.  No more "lost" zero! It works well with dates you want in a format that is not an option.  Here's one that shows you how my March 3 displays in the cell without the apostrophe (cell A5) - it's converted to 3/3/2016.  But typing in 'March 3 (as I di...