Having multiple calendars with different appointments on each one is a sure path to double bookings and an argument with someone you’ve annoyed. Get more organized and more reliable by subscribing to your Outlook Calendar in Google Calendars.
To do this, you’ll need Outlook and a Google Calendar (which is pretty obvious), but you won’t need any third-party plugins, add-ons, extensions, or tools.
Related: how to display a google calendar in outlook
both microsoft and google support the ical format, which is short for “icalendar”. it’s an open standard for exchanging calendar and schedule information between users and computers that’s been around since the late 1990s. this means you can subscribe to icals if you have the right link, which is the method we’ll use here.
share an outlook calendar
since we are going to display an outlook calendar in google calendar, we need to get the link of the outlook calendar first. In previous iterations of Outlook, it was possible to publish your calendar from the Outlook client on your laptop, but since the introduction of Office 365, Microsoft only allows you to share a calendar with people outside of your organization using the Outlook Web App.
Sign in to your office 365 account and navigate to outlook by clicking the app launcher (the nine dots in the upper left corner) and selecting the outlook icon.
click settings > view all outlook settings.
open calendar > shared calendars.
In the “publish a calendar” section, choose the calendar you want to share (if you only have one calendar set up, it will be called “calendar”), select “can see all details” in the second dropdown, and click ” publish”.
this will create two links: an html link and an ics link. the html link allows people to view your calendar in a browser and the ics link will allow people to import your calendar into their calendar program.
click the ics link and a menu will appear. select the “copy link” option to copy the link to your clipboard.
add outlook calendar to google calendar
open google calendar and click the “+” sign next to “other calendars”.
in the menu that appears, click “from url”.
paste the ics link you copied from outlook and click “add calendar”.
exit setup and verify that the calendar has been added.
The calendar will sync with your outlook calendar for as long as you remain subscribed. Outlook calendar changes may take a few minutes to reflect in Google calendar (or it can be almost instant, depending on when Google checks for new information), but Outlook events should appear fairly quickly.
customize the appearance of the calendar
Your calendar is now in sync, but to make things a little easier to use, you can change the display name from the useless “calendar” to something else.
first, hover over the calendar, click the three dots next to it, and click “settings”.
In the “name” text box at the top of the page, change the name of the calendar to something more meaningful. then click the back arrow at the top left to exit settings.
the calendar now shows your new name.
delete an outlook calendar from google
If you hover over the calendar, an “x” will appear. clicking this will unsubscribe you from the calendar. you will have to repeat these steps and re-enter the ics url to subscribe again.
