An Executive Assistant

I am a Silicon Valley Venture Capital Executive Assistant writing about Executive Assistants / Admin Assistants. © Bhavana Kumar

View Google Calendar (.iCAL) in Outlook 2010

I use Google Docs and Google Calendar to do most of my personal work. But if you are an Executive Assistant or Admin Assistant chances are that you use MS Office for office work. Since I am on Outlook all the time at work, I thought it would be easier to view my Google Calendar in Outlook as well. If you’d like to add your Google Calendar try what I did. I am currently using Outlook 2010.

Click Settings>Calendar after you log in to your Google Calendar. At this point you should see all the calendars you have on your Gmail account. 

Click on the calendar you would like to add to MS Outlook. I have highlighted it below.

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Scroll down to the Private Address section and click on the iCAL button. 

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Copy the calendar address you see on your page. 

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Now that I am done with the Google Calendar, I open MS Outlook 2010. I click on File>Home tab>Open Calendar and scroll to From Internet.  

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Paste the link/address you copied from your Google Calendar and click OK

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Click Yes

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You should see another dialog box open up asking you to add a name to the calendar. But that is pretty much it. Voila! You can now see your Google Calendar in your MS Outlook Calendar. :)