How to get your Google Calendar events to show in the Calendar app in Windows 8

	If you’d like to see your Google Calendar events in the Calendar app, you have two options:<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>·        You can permanently move them into Outlook.com. <br>When you’re done, all your events will be available in the Windows Calendar app.  From there, you can edit, delete, and update your events. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>·        You can subscribe to your Google calendar from Outlook.com.  When you’re done, you can see all your events in the Windows 8 Calendar app, but you won’t be<br> able to add, edit or delete events from the app.  If you want to make updates, you’ll have to go to google.com and sign in.<br><br><br><br><br><br> Option 1:  Move your Google Calendar events to Outlook.com<br><br><br><br><br><br>You can find detailed steps for moving your Google Calendar events to Outlookby<br> clicking the link.	<br>	---	<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Option 2:  Subscribe to your Google Calendar from Outlook.com<br><br><br><br><br><ol><br><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Sign in to your Google account.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span>Tap or click <strong>Calendar</strong>, tap or click the settings icon, and then tap or click<br><strong>Settings</strong>.</span><span style="color:#000000"> </span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Tap or click on the calendar you want to subscribe to and next to the<br><strong>Private address</strong>, tap or click <strong>ICAL</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Copy the URL under<strong> Private address</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Sign in to Outlook.com.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Tap or click <strong>Subscribe</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Paste the URL you’d copied earlier in <strong><br>Calendar URL</strong>, add a name for this calendar, and tap or click <strong>Subscribe to calendar</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li></ol>

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	If you’d like to see your Google Calendar events in the Calendar app, you have two options:<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>·        You can permanently move them into Outlook.com. <br>When you’re done, all your events will be available in the Windows Calendar app.  From there, you can edit, delete, and update your events. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>·        You can subscribe to your Google calendar from Outlook.com.  When you’re done, you can see all your events in the Windows 8 Calendar app, but you won’t be<br> able to add, edit or delete events from the app.  If you want to make updates, you’ll have to go to google.com and sign in.<br><br><br><br><br><br> Option 1:  Move your Google Calendar events to Outlook.com<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>You can find detailed steps for <br>moving your Google Calendar events to Outlookby clicking the link.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Option 2:  Subscribe to your Google Calendar from Outlook.com<br><br><br><br><br><ol><br><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Sign in to your Google account.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span>Tap or click <strong>Calendar</strong>, tap or click the settings icon, and then tap or click<br><strong>Settings</strong>.</span><span style="color:#000000"> </span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Tap or click on the calendar you want to subscribe to and next to the<br><strong>Private address</strong>, tap or click <strong>ICAL</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Copy the URL under<strong> Private address</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Sign in to Outlook.com.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Tap or click <strong>Subscribe</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li><li><span><span style="color:#000000">Paste the URL you’d copied earlier in <strong><br>Calendar URL</strong>, add a name for this calendar, and tap or click <strong>Subscribe to calendar</strong>.</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><br></span></li></ol>	<br>	---

There is a way to do it manually, with some possible customization of the tile graphic, which is what I did a couple of years ago. The instructions are now hard to find, but start here: 

http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/11/20/creating-your-own-windows-8-start-screen-shortcuts-tiles/

Seems like most people are now using freeware called OblyTile to do this now, but the old-fashioned manual method worked fine for me, before I abandoned the Metro screen entirely and just went back to using Desktop. Google around a bit, and you may find more specific/detailed instructions for manual tile creation.

Will you point me in the correct direction to make my own tiles?  Seems where I looking steps are missing.  I am so feed up with this corporate tug and pull, I need a solution.  Microsoft and Google are not going to work together.  PERIOD. 

Thanks much

Christine