Import events to Google Calendar

You tin transfer your events from a different calendar application or Google Account to Google Calendar.

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

Step 1: Export events

Export your events as a file that you tin import into Google. Choose ane of these options:

Consign from another calendar application

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

  1. Open the calendar awarding where your events are currently stored.
    • Tip: It's normally easier to do this job from a computer than from a mobile device.
  2. Discover an selection to Consign.
  3. Choose a file format:
    • If you can choose from different file formats, choose CSV.
    • If you use an Apple device, choose vCard.

For more help, check your calendar application'south assistance center or try to use the words "export calendar" in your search.

Your file is stored on your calculator where your downloads are usually saved or in the place y'all chose when yous exported.

Export from a dissimilar Google Account

If you lot have more one Google Account, you tin can consign your calendars from one account and import them into another.

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

Tip: Imported events don't stay in sync between your two accounts. If you want your calendars to sync, share your calendar with the other business relationship.

Stride ii: Import events into Google Calendar

​Afterward yous export your events, you tin can import them into Google Agenda. Y'all tin import with ICS and CSV files on a reckoner.

  1. Open Google Agenda.
  2. In the top correct, click Settings Settings and then Settings.
  3. In the carte du jour on the left, click Import & Consign.
  4. Click Select file from your computer and select the file y'all exported. The file should cease 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 .zip file, discover it on your reckoner and open information technology. You'll find .ics files for each of your calendars. Take the individual files out of the .zip file, and import each .ics file individually.

If y'all import echo events from a .csv file, they might not show up that way. They'll exist on your calendar as a serial of one-time 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 get an error when you import a .csv file, you might exist able to fix the formatting.

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

The offset row of your new spreadsheet includes headers similar "Subject area" and "Start Engagement." To import into Google Calendar, the headers must exist in English. For the correct headers yous need to import into Agenda, go to the list below.

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

Field of study Commencement date Get-go time
Final examination 05/30/2020 x:00 AM

When you're done, relieve the file equally 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

Just the first 2 headers in this list are required. The balance are optional.

Important: The headers must be in English as shown in this commodity. If any upshot details have commas (like the location example given), yous tin can include them with quotation marks around the text.

  • Subject
    (Required) The proper noun of the event
    Example: Final exam
  • Start Engagement
    (Required) The kickoff day of the event
    Example: 05/30/2020
  • Starting time Time
    The time the upshot begins
    Example: 10:00 AM
  • End Date
    The last day of the effect
    Instance: 05/30/2020
  • End Time
    The fourth dimension the event ends
    Example: 1:00 PM
  • All Solar day Result
    Whether the outcome is an all-day event.
    • If it's an all-twenty-four hours consequence, enter True.
    • If it isn't an all-day consequence, enter Imitation.
      Example: False
  • Description
    Description or notes virtually the upshot
    Example: "50 multiple pick questions and two essay questions"
  • Location
    The location for the result
    Example: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Private
    Whether the result should exist marked private.
    • If information technology's individual, enter True.
    • If it isn't individual, enter False.
      Example: True

These examples would create the following consequence:

  • Event: "Concluding exam" on May 30, 2020 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
  • Location: "Columbia, Schermerhorn 614"
  • Description: "50 multiple option questions and two essay questions"
  • Private: Individual event

Create or edit an iCalendar file

iCalendar files are a standard agenda format used to transfer calendar data. If yous get an fault when yous import an iCalendar file (.ics), yous might be able to ready the formatting.

  1. With a text editor awarding that tin salve .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 as an instance.
  3. When you're done, save the file as an .ics file.

Format iCalendar files

The first line in an iCalendar file must e'er exist the header Begin:VCALENDAR. Other header information, such equally VERSION:2.0 and "PRODID:<{enter ID information hither}>", must follow this header. The final line of the file must be the footer END:VCALENDAR. Betwixt these lines, enter  all the events in the calendar. Each event must be between BEGIN:VEVENT and Stop:VEVENT lines.

If you must manually edit an iCalendar file, brand sure that each file contains the header and footer. If yous're non sure where your header ends, copy and paste the text until i line above Brainstorm:VEVENT. This location is where your header ends and your event data starts.

Here's what an iCalendar file looks like. An iCalendar file tin can also take more than information, but these are the required parts.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:2.0

PRODID:< {enter ID data here} >

{Other header information}

BEGIN:VEVENT

{Event details}

End:VEVENT

BEGIN:VEVENT

{Consequence details}

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Troubleshooting

Related resources

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

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