Our Village Calendar is hosted by Google. If you would like to add one or more of the individual calendars that make up this calendar to your own diary just click on the name of the calendar to download as an iCal file; alternatively, right click on the name and select “Copy Link Location” to add as an account to organisers such as Microsoft Outlook.
Subscribe to Calendar using Outlook
An Internet Calendar (iCal) Subscription keeps your Outlook copy of your Calendar up-to-date.
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Right-click the above entry for the desired calendar, and then click Copy Link Location in the shortcut menu.
Note Don’t click the link. If you do, the calendar will open in Outlook as a Calendar Snapshot and won’t be updated.
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In Outlook, click File > Account Settings > Account Settings.
- On the Internet Calendars tab, click New.
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Paste the address you copied in step 4, by pressing CTRL+V, and click Add.
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In the Folder Name box, type the name of the calendar as you want it to appear in Outlook, and then click OK.
When you start Outlook, it checks Google Calendar for updates and downloads any changes. If you keep Outlook open, it also periodically checks for and downloads updates. (Google Calendar tells Outlook how often to check for updates.)
Import a calendar
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Click the above entry for the desired calendar.
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When prompted, click Open with Microsoft Outlook to import the calendar into Outlook.
Note The imported calendar is a static snapshot. To update it, you need to subscribe to it or repeat this procedure to import a copy of the most current version of your calendar
Open calendar
The calendar opens in side-by-side view in the Outlook Calendar. It’s also added to the Navigation Pane in Calendar view, under Other Calendars. If the calendar is not showing, check the box next to its name in the Navigation Pane.
To merge the events with your own calendar, click on the arrow to the left of the Calendar Title. To reverse the process click again on the arrow, which now points in the opposite direction.