Cannot import .ics file into Outlook (new) app

So, bear in mind this is a true workaround so it is circuitous and annoying by nature....

1. Download the .ics file.
2. Create a new email in outlook to yourself.
3. Attach the downloaded .ics file.
4. Send to yourself. (Note about how annoying it is you have to do this optional.)
5. Open your new mail and click on the .ics attachment.
6. Click "+Add To Calendar" in the window that pops up.
7. Actually get notifications about your meetings...

Good luck.

Microsoft....please sort out this issue.

Thank you for this workaround. This worked for me.

I'm having the exact same issue with the new outlook. There is no calendar to select when you import an ICS.

Slight modification to your work around is to open a new email message, drop the ics in as an attachment, and then from the ics attachment, clieck the down arrow and choose "Add to Calendar". This just saves the step of emailing it to yourself.

Microsoft?

New Outlook is absolutely annoying. There are so many simple features that have been removed. Attachments have become combersome and need to be downloaded twice, settings are hidden and extremely limited, moving files is sketchy and a whole host of other things. Whoever did this 'upgrade' obviously doesn't have a real job.

That's the thing....when many of us are getting to the "Select Calendar" step, there are no calendars in the drop box.

That's the bug.

Also, you can try the steps below: 1. Download the ICS file 2. In the file explorer, navigate to the file and right click 3. Open with > New Outlook (with the letters 'PRE' on the icon) 4. Select which calendar to add the event to and confirm After doing this once, opening the ICS file directly allows me to add it to my calendar.

This workaround was successful for me.

Thank you SOJI_OYE.

Hi Soji,

many thanks.

I couldn't find the File option in New Outlook. I therefore switched back to old outlook. However, it seems that i thereby lost all calendar entries which I created under New Outlook. That shouldn't be the case, no? Can you advise?

Also, under the old outlook, my outlook calendar does not sync to the calendar on my iphone. can you advise?

Should I use old or new outlook? Old outlook has problems with syncing with phone, new outlook has problems importing calendar entries. So neither is working properly.

Many thanks, Finn