Import events to Google Calendar

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

When you import an event, guests and conference data for that event are not imported.

Step 1: Export events

Consign your events every bit a file that you can import into Google. Choose ane of these options:

Export from another calendar awarding

You can export your events from most calendar applications, such Outlook Agenda or Apple tree Calendar.

  1. Open the agenda application where your events are currently stored.
    • Tip: Information technology's normally easier to do this task from a computer than from a mobile device.
  2. Find an option to Export.
  3. Choose a file format:
    • If you can choose from different file formats, choose CSV.
    • If you lot use an Apple device, choose vCard.

For more assist, cheque your agenda application'southward help centre or try to use the words "export calendar" in your search.

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

Export from a different Google Account

If you take more than 1 Google Account, you tin can export your calendars from one account and import them into some other.

  1. On a reckoner, sign in to the Google Account that you want to consign from. You can just export from a calculator, not a telephone or tablet.
  2. To export your agenda, follow these steps.
  3. When you export your agenda, download an .ics file to your computer.
  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 two accounts. If y'all want your calendars to sync, share your agenda with the other account.

Footstep 2: Import events into Google Calendar

​After you export your events, you can import them into Google Calendar. You can import with ICS and CSV files on a estimator.

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

  7. If you have a .zero file, find it on your reckoner and open it. You'll discover .ics files for each of your calendars. Have the private files out of the .zip file, and import each .ics file individually.

If y'all import repeat events from a .csv file, they might not evidence upwardly that way. They'll be on your calendar as a series of one-time events.

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

Create or edit a .csv file

You tin import .csv (comma separated values) files into Google Calendar. If you get an error when you import a .csv file, y'all might be able to fix the formatting.

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

The beginning row of your new spreadsheet includes headers like "Field of study" and "Beginning Date." To import into Google Calendar, the headers must be in English language. For the correct headers you lot need to import into Agenda, go to the list below.

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

Discipline Start appointment Start time
Concluding exam 05/30/2020 ten:00 AM

When you're done, salvage the file every bit a .csv file. Then, to import the file into Google Calendar, follow the steps in "Import events into Google Calendar."

Format headers & events in .csv files

Just the kickoff two headers in this list are required. The rest are optional.

Important: The headers must exist in English language as shown in this article. If whatever consequence details have commas (like the location example given), you lot tin include them with quotation marks around the text.

  • Subject field
    (Required) The name of the effect
    Example: Final exam
  • Start Date
    (Required) The first day of the effect
    Example: 05/30/2020
  • Start Time
    The time the result begins
    Instance: 10:00 AM
  • Stop Appointment
    The concluding day of the event
    Example: 05/30/2020
  • Stop Time
    The time the event ends
    Example: 1:00 PM
  • All Day Event
    Whether the event is an all-day event.
    • If it's an all-day event, enter True.
    • If it isn't an all-day outcome, enter Fake.
      Example: Fake
  • Description
    Description or notes most the event
    Example: "50 multiple option questions and two essay questions"
  • Location
    The location for the event
    Instance: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Private
    Whether the event should be marked private.
    • If information technology's individual, enter True.
    • If it isn't individual, enter Faux.
      Example: True

These examples would create the post-obit event:

  • Upshot: "Final examination" on May 30, 2020 ten:00 AM–1:00 PM
  • Location: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Clarification: "50 multiple pick questions and two essay questions"
  • Private: Private upshot

Create or edit an iCalendar file

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

  1. With a text editor application that can save .ics files, open an .ics file or create one.
  2. Format your file with the guidelines below.
    • You can export an .ics file from Google Calendar to use every bit an example.
  3. When y'all're washed, save the file as an .ics file.

Format iCalendar files

The first line in an iCalendar file must always exist the header Begin:VCALENDAR. Other header information, such as VERSION:ii.0 and "PRODID:<{enter ID information here}>", must follow this header. The last line of the file must be the footer Stop:VCALENDAR. Betwixt these lines, enter  all the events in the agenda. Each event must exist between Brainstorm:VEVENT and End:VEVENT lines.

If you lot must manually edit an iCalendar file, make sure that each file contains the header and footer. If yous're not sure where your header ends, re-create and paste the text until one line above Brainstorm:VEVENT. This location is where your header ends and your event data starts.

Hither's what an iCalendar file looks like. An iCalendar file tin can likewise have more than information, but these are the required parts.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:ii.0

PRODID:< {enter ID information here} >

{Other header data}

Begin:VEVENT

{Issue details}

End:VEVENT

BEGIN:VEVENT

{Event details}

Terminate:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Troubleshooting

Related resources

  • Sync your calendar with other applications on a figurer
  • Share your agenda with someone else
  • Sync Calendar with a phone or tablet

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