Import events to Google Calendar

You lot can transfer your events from a unlike calendar application or Google Account to Google Calendar.

When you lot import an event, guests and conference data for that event are non imported.

Step ane: Export events

Consign your events as a file that y'all tin import into Google. Choose i of these options:

Export from another calendar application

You can consign your events from almost agenda applications, such Outlook Calendar or Apple Calendar.

  1. Open the agenda application where your events are currently stored.
    • Tip: It's usually easier to do this task from a reckoner than from a mobile device.
  2. Find an option to Export.
  3. Cull a file format:
    • If yous can choose from different file formats, choose CSV.
    • If yous use an Apple tree device, choose vCard.

For more aid, cheque your calendar awarding'due south help heart or effort to utilize the words "export agenda" in your search.

Your file is stored on your computer where your downloads are usually saved or in the identify you lot chose when you exported.

Export from a unlike Google Account

If you have more than 1 Google Account, you can export your calendars from one account and import them into another.

  1. On a reckoner, sign in to the Google Account that y'all want to consign from. Y'all can only export from a computer, not a telephone or tablet.
  2. To consign your calendar, follow these steps.
  3. When you export your agenda, download an .ics file to your reckoner.
  4. Sign in to the Google Business relationship where y'all want to import.
  5. To import your calendar, continue to "Create or edit .csv and  iCal files before you import."

Tip: Imported events don't stay in sync between your 2 accounts. If you want your calendars to sync, share your agenda with the other account.

Stride 2: Import events into Google Agenda

​After yous export your events, yous tin import them into Google Calendar. Yous can import with ICS and CSV files on a computer.

  1. Open Google Calendar.
  2. In the top right, click Settings Settings and then Settings.
  3. In the menu on the left, click Import & Export.
  4. Click Select file from your figurer and select the file you exported. The file should finish in ".ics" or ".csv."
  5.  Choose which calendar to add the imported events to.
    • Past default, events are imported into your primary calendar.
  6. Click Import.

  7. If you have a .aught file, find it on your computer and open it. You lot'll detect .ics files for each of your calendars. Take the private files out of the .zip file, and import each .ics file individually.

If you import repeat events from a .csv file, they might not show up that mode. They'll exist on your calendar as a series of former events.

Advanced: Create or edit .csv or iCal files before you import

Create or edit a .csv file

You lot can import .csv (comma separated values) files into Google Calendar. If you lot get an mistake when you import a .csv file, you might be able to set the formatting.

Open a .csv file or create one with a spreadsheet editor like Google Sheets.

The get-go row of your new spreadsheet includes headers like "Subject" and "Start Appointment." To import into Google Agenda, the headers must be in English language. For the correct headers you need to import into Calendar, go to the list beneath.

Each row below the header row represents an event. For example:

Subject Starting time engagement Beginning time
Final examination 05/30/2020 10:00 AM

When y'all're done, save the file as a .csv file. Then, to import the file into Google Calendar, follow the steps in "Import events into Google Agenda."

Format headers & events in .csv files

Only the first ii headers in this list are required. The rest are optional.

Of import: The headers must be in English every bit shown in this article. If whatever effect details have commas (like the location example given), you can include them with quotation marks around the text.

  • Discipline
    (Required) The name of the issue
    Example: Terminal exam
  • Start Engagement
    (Required) The first twenty-four hours of the issue
    Instance: 05/30/2020
  • Kickoff Fourth dimension
    The time the outcome begins
    Instance: 10:00 AM
  • Stop Engagement
    The last day of the consequence
    Example: 05/30/2020
  • End Time
    The time the outcome ends
    Instance: i:00 PM
  • All Solar day Event
    Whether the event is an all-mean solar day issue.
    • If it's an all-day issue, enter True.
    • If it isn't an all-mean solar day event, enter Simulated.
      Example: False
  • Clarification
    Description or notes most the outcome
    Example: "50 multiple choice questions and two essay questions"
  • Location
    The location for the event
    Example: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Private
    Whether the effect should exist marked private.
    • If it'due south private, enter Truthful.
    • If information technology isn't private, enter Simulated.
      Instance: True

These examples would create the following result:

  • Result: "Final examination" on May xxx, 2022 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
  • Location: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Description: "50 multiple choice questions and two essay questions"
  • Individual: Private upshot

Create or edit an iCalendar file

iCalendar files are a standard calendar format used to transfer calendar data. If you get an mistake when you import an iCalendar file (.ics), you lot might be able to fix the formatting.

  1. With a text editor awarding that tin save .ics files, open an .ics file or create one.
  2. Format your file with the guidelines below.
    • You can consign an .ics file from Google Calendar to use every bit an example.
  3. When you lot're done, relieve the file as an .ics file.

Format iCalendar files

The first line in an iCalendar file must ever exist the header Begin:VCALENDAR. Other header information, such equally VERSION:2.0 and "PRODID:<{enter ID information here}>", must follow this header. The last line of the file must be the footer END:VCALENDAR. Between these lines, enter  all the events in the calendar. Each event must exist betwixt Begin:VEVENT and Terminate:VEVENT lines.

If you must manually edit an iCalendar file, make certain that each file contains the header and footer. If you're not sure where your header ends, re-create and paste the text until one line in a higher place BEGIN:VEVENT. This location is where your header ends and your outcome data starts.

Here'southward what an iCalendar file looks similar. An iCalendar file tin as well have more information, merely these are the required parts.

Brainstorm:VCALENDAR

VERSION:2.0

PRODID:< {enter ID information hither} >

{Other header information}

Begin:VEVENT

{Effect details}

END:VEVENT

BEGIN:VEVENT

{Outcome details}

Finish:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Troubleshooting

Related resources

  • Sync your calendar with other applications on a estimator
  • Share your calendar with someone else
  • Sync Agenda with a phone or tablet

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