How to: Sync Google Calandar with Outlook

Posted March 18, 2008 at 09:34 AM by JG Mason

Section: Web, Websites, Features, How To

If you are like me, you have an Outlook Calendar for work and Google Calendar for your life.  Often, I find the need to have the two mix and I am far too lazy to enter everything in twice.  Now you don’t have to.  Google announces their download Sync helper to add your Google Calendar to your Outlook Calendar with lots of options.

First a couple of warnings: one, the link below is an executable that will download the sync software to your machine.  Two, your shared calendars will not sync, only your primary (its a bit of a downer for me).  Other than those, Google has really thought this out as you’ll see next.

The first step is to download the program.  Visit here and select “save file”.  Click “ok” of your awareness to the fact that it is an executable and if you like agree to Google’s terms.  The program will now install on your machine and bring you to the image shown above.  Here is where it gets fun.

Google’s sync client allows you to: Sync 2-way (your appointments show up in both calendars) Sync 1- way (Google appts to Outlook or vice-versa) Sync every X number of minutes.

I really like that the solution does not require you to manually sync every time you wish to get updated.  The client will sync the latest changes as you wish. For you OCD types, 10 minutes is the minimum interval for syncing.

The program puts an icon in the tray for you to let you know when the syncing is occurring.  You can access the settings by right-clicking on the tray icon.

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