Calendar synchronization is a very important step, as many users save their events in one of them. That is why the calendars of the emails should be synchronized to avoid some kind of confusion between events, since you may have some saved in one email but not in the other.
Google calendar is an important tool for these cases, it was developed by the Google company in order to allow configuration and help users when sharing an event.
So with the help of the systematized account, you can easily configure the Outlook and Gmail calendar so that you have the activities well synchronized. We give you some tips and tricks to use the organize functions in Google Calendar
However! This is an activity that some users are generally unaware of and due to its importance, it is necessary for them to learn how to perform the procedure. Therefore, below we will show you step by step how to synchronize the calendar with Gmail and calendar.
Outlook calendar: find out how to sync calendar with Gmail and calendar
Initially, in order to configure the Outlook calendar in Gmail, specific steps must be followed. Therefore, you have to log in to Outlook, then you have to click in the upper right part of the window on the “settings” option.
This option will show a new window where you have to look at the bottom and click on “see all Outlook settings”. A new tab is automatically opened, which is divided into three parts, but the “calendar” option must be selected in the first one.
Then you will see the calendar options where you have to click on “shared calendars”. A new menu will be displayed in which you have to click on the shared calendar drop-down bar and select “calendar”. This step allows you to open a new tab where you must add the Gmail email address.
At the same time, there is the option of “can see all the details” which should be left like this and then click on “share”. So you will see that the email has already been added and you can close the tab to access the option to “publish a calendar” in which it is selected.
In the section next to it there is the alternative of «select permissions» in which you have to select «you can see all the details», once the configuration has been done you have to click on «publish».
Automatically then two options appear “you can see all the details” which are in ICS AND HTML format. So you have to click on ICS since you want to add in mail and select “copy link”.
Setting up Outlook calendars with Gmail and calendar
Once the link has been copied, you have to go to the Gmail email which was added in the calendar where you can see that the invitation message is located and you can open it. But you must click on “calendar” which is in the right menu, once selected you can open it to see it in a new tab.
So after expanding the option, you have to select «other calendars» in the left menu. For this, you have to click on the + symbol which displays a submenu where the option to choose is: «from URL».
In this section, you must paste the previously copied URL and press “add calendar”, then you will have to wait a few seconds to see the message that it has already been added. Therefore, you can exit the configuration to be in the previous step and you will see that the one that has just been added is in other calendars.
It only remains to click on the three points that are in the copied calendar to display a new tab which must be selected “configuration”. So you have to change the name of it to be able to identify it easily, refresh the page to view the calendar with the new name.
In short, it is a simple process if you follow each of the steps correctly you will be able to make the desired configuration of the calendar between Outlook and Gmail emails.