Google Calendar: Howto Import Outlook (CSV) or iCal Calendar Events

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Google calendar is here. Importing from a CSV or iCal file is easy enough.


What to import your schedule from outlook into google calendar? Actually importing from any CSV or iCAL file is very easy.

Here is the tutorial to go from Outlook to Google Calendar:

1. Open Outlook
2. Click File menu
3. Click Import and Export
4. Click Export to a file
5. Click Comma Separated Values (DOS)
6. You may be required to install the possible translator here. Just follow the directions on the screen.
7. Select folder to export from: Calendar
8. Browse, name, and save the file some place easy to find it. (Desktop)
9. Click Next
10. On the follow actions will be performed screen click the Finish button.
11. Allow the export to perform
12. Open Google Calendar
13. Click the small ‘Add’ link in the bottom right corner of the “Other calendars” box that’s on the left side of your calendar page.
14. Click the Import Calendarlink under Calendar settings
15. Click the Browse button and select your exported file
16. Choose your calendar
17. Click Import and wait. It may take a bit.
18. It’ll tell you when it’s done!!!

Congratulations. Your outlook calendar is now exported to google calendar!

 

30 Comments -


  1. Kevin said on October 1, 2008

    could not see “Import” only “Export” in Calendar settings. I am using Google Chrome browser.

  2. davak said on October 1, 2008

    Kevin: It looks like this was recently changed. I’ll update the main recipe, but here is how to do it now.

    Click the Add arrow under the Calendar list in the left column
    Select Import from there.

  3. Kevin said on October 1, 2008

    Holy smokes! There it is. Thanx.

  4. davak said on October 1, 2008

    Anytime!

  5. Kevin said on October 1, 2008

    …any idea about importing contacts from Outlook to Gmail so that all the fields and entries make the trip?

  6. J. Cadow said on October 2, 2008

    For this to “work good” in the current Google Calendar interface, change step 13 to:

    13. Click the small ‘Add’ link in the bottom right corner of the “Other calendars” box that’s on the left side of your calendar page.

  7. josh said on October 2, 2008

    Thanks, it worked good.

  8. Monte_Asbury said on October 14, 2008

    I moved my Palm calendar to Gcal by exporting it to yahoo calendar, then exporting as a csv to Gcal.

  9. wdonders said on October 25, 2008

    Sorry, but I still can’t find the import option.

    Only in the pulldown menu under ‘Add’ in the ‘Other calendars’ pane, there is an import option.
    But not in the ‘My calendars’ Pane.
    And i want to import a calendar which i can edit, not a ‘other calendar’, cause these are not editable.
    help! Am i missing something?

  10. moi said on December 24, 2008

    same here whats up with that?

  11. Web Suunnittelu said on December 31, 2008

    Cool app, but the import feature was a pain in the back!

  12. richard S said on June 11, 2009

    does this process update the google calendar when you add stuff to the outlook?

  13. Linda gollette said on July 1, 2009

    thanks for the advise it worked perfectly

  14. Liperty said on July 24, 2009

    I don’t seem to be able to import reoccurring events – they become 100s of individual events.. is there any way to resolve this..

    eg. If I have a weekly appointment in Outlook – it becomes an separate appointment for each week in Google Calendars – not good if you want to change the address / details of the appointment for all instances!

    Pls. help!

    Cheers,

    -=Steve

  15. rafdevis said on February 11, 2010

    Great! Gracias.

  16. John P. said on March 29, 2010

    Awesome! Just followed your instructions and it worked like a charm!

    Many thanks-!

  17. Anonymous said on April 29, 2010

    This does not work well when you begin to import your Outlook calendar on a regular basis (weekly).

    I am finding numerous duplicate entires in my google calendar, and this gets worse each time I import with more duplicates.

    Can I stop this occurring?

  18. Keith said on May 28, 2010

    Your tease says that “Actually importing from any CSV or iCAL file is very easy.” But I don’t see any instructions re: importing from iCal, just Outlook. Am I missing something?

  19. NyeTheLoanGuy said on June 25, 2010

    Thx, this was easy and worked great.

  20. Jjkennard said on July 9, 2010

    How did you do that? I have a Palm Tungsten E2 which I love but is starting to give up the ghost and now just purchased an Incredible phone. I have a Gmail account already set up. Palm Support helped me to get my Palm calendar into Outlook, but you can’t transfer “recurring” events, and that’s about half of my calendar. Please help as I am not very computer savvy.

  21. TomKayak said on October 18, 2010

    Anyway to write an app that automates all of those tasks?
    Tommy

  22. Ajblye said on October 24, 2010

    Yay it worked! Now I must learn how to synd both calendars and get all that to my blackberry

  23. Drew said on November 12, 2010

    Awesome! Worked like a charm, thanks.

  24. Leenwa said on December 2, 2010

    I am unable to get it to work on Outlook 2007 12/1/10

  25. Craig Salvay said on January 22, 2011

    Thanks. Good Instructions…especially “it will tell you when it’s done.” Impatience is a terrible thing!

  26. Jbridges said on April 6, 2011

    Thanks, worked like a charm the first try. And I’m a non-techie.

  27. Tacktoday said on April 24, 2011

    it has grayed out, has a small box in the corner that says import calendar but doesnt seem to have worked. I NEED THIS can someone email me back and help me, i dont want to loose this info and can’t seem to get it from outlook 03 to google???

    sue
    tacktoday@gmail.com

  28. Heidy Morales said on May 31, 2011

    I agree…I first tried using the Microsoft instructions and as always, they sucked. I did this all on the first try and I’m certainly a non-techie also. THANKS!!!

  29. Marian said on September 2, 2011

    I imported my ical file (ics) into the Google calendar and saw it did ( in a second) but nothing shows. Restarted the Mac but whatever I try the Google calendar stays empty :S
    Can you help?

  30. Megan Vice said on January 26, 2012

    Hi,

    I was able import the football calendar using the ICS file, but not the CSV. I was wondering if there will be a ICS file version of the Men’s basketball schedule?

    Thanks!

 

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