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

Anonymous
2013-03-29T19:57:40+00:00

How do I get my Google Calendar events to show in the Calendar app in Windows 8?

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2013-03-29T19:58:16+00:00
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 Outlook by 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><font color="#000000">Sign in to your Google account.</font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></li><li><span>Tap or click <b>Calendar</b>, tap or click the settings icon, and then tap or click<br><b>Settings</b>.</span><font color="#000000"> </font></li><li><span><font color="#000000">Tap or click on the calendar you want to subscribe to and next to the<br><b>Private address</b>, tap or click <b>ICAL</b>.</font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></li><li><span><font color="#000000">Copy the URL under<b> Private address</b>.</font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></li><li><span><font color="#000000">Sign in to Outlook.com.</font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></li><li><span><font color="#000000">Tap or click <b>Subscribe</b>.</font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></li><li><span><font color="#000000">Paste the URL you’d copied earlier in <b>Calendar URL</b>, add a name for this calendar, and tap or click<br><b>Subscribe to calendar</b>.</font></span><font color="#000000"> </font></li></ol> <br> ---

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-02-22T16:04:54+00:00

    OK thanks for the suggestion I will check it out. Although having bought one 'bicycle with a broken wheel' I am cautious about buying another.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-22T15:54:06+00:00

    Why don't you give OneCalender a try from the Windows Store. It allows you to sync all your accounts.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-22T15:44:37+00:00

    Before I ignore Calendar app as the useless piece of badly-written junk it probably is and remove it from my sight .... is there anyone out there who could suggest how to make this Sh**t work like a normal calendar?

    Actually, this is your best bet. After going through multiple contortions, I ended up just putting a browser link to my Google calendar on the "Metro" UI. After Win 8.1, I ceased using Metro at all, just booting to the desktop which has worked well for 20+ years.

    Outlook continues to be excessively cumbersome and user-unfriendly; unfortunately, Google's apps have been getting worse and worse lately...

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-22T15:07:28+00:00

    Tried the instructions from help and imported a .ics file of my google calendar into outlook.com calendar. BUT - when I went into my calendar app I could not see the events from my google calendar.

    If I go back into my Outlook calendar I can see them.

    Tried to 'refresh' my calendar app, but of course they have not included something as useful as that function! Checked that I have my outlook.com account added to my calendar app and it is. Tried to re-add it, but it will not let me do that.

    Before I ignore Calendar app as the useless piece of badly-written junk it probably is and remove it from my sight .... is there anyone out there who could suggest how to make this Sh**t work like a normal calendar?

    Thanks

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