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How often does Google Calendar update its "Other Calendar" feeds?
For everyone that is on this thread or might see it in the future, I have made a Google Apps Script program to update the calendar as frequently as you like (up to every minute). It is available here: ...
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Sync Office 365 calendar to Google calendar
The solution is to log into Office 365 via https://portal.office.com, click on Calendar and then click on Calendar again under "My app settings". Go to publish calendar and publish the desired ...
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How to set default notification settings in Google Calendar?
For "Classic Calendar":
Go to Settings.
Click Calendars (tab).
Click Edit notifications (link).
Change or remove the default notification setting in Event Notifications and All Day Event ...
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Is it possible to bookmark a Google calendar or inbox for a specific account?
This seems to be an undocumented feature, but you can use the authuser URL parameter.
So, you can create bookmarks that will take you directly to the calendar for a specific account, like so:
https:/...
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Can I share an event as an ICS file?
The easiest way to do this (without creating another calendar) is to create the event and then invite yourself. You'll receive an email from Google with the .ics file as an attachment.
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How to easily add flight itinerary to Google Calendar from flight confirmation email in Gmail?
Send an email with subject line "Flight Itinerary" to yourself and copy-paste the contents of Itinerary PDF into the email as a plain text. Google will automatically parse this new email and add the ...
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Can I share an event as an ICS file?
There isn't a nice and direct way to do that.
However, you could do the following:
Create a new temporary calendar from the + sign in the calendars list.
Go to your event and copy/duplicate it to ...
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How to search reminders added to Google Calendar?
This would seem to be an oversight on Google's part. Reminders don't appear to be searchable.
When you use the advanced search options, you can limit your search to a particular calendar (including "...
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New Google Calendar (2017) Quick Add
Quick Add isn't available for/built into the new Calendar, but does work with a Chrome extension called Google Calendar (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-calendar-by-google/...
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Create a Gmail filter for Calendar Notifications
Perhaps the simplest way is
Has the words: "google.com/calendar"
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Schedule an event for last Sunday (or another day of week) of each month
In the main Google Calendar view, click 'Create'
Click the text box representing the start date (The datepicker pops up)
Choose a month that has 5 Sundays (For example, August 2015)
Pick the 5th ...
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Why does my Google Calendar event, with "no end date" suddenly end?
Currently, Google Calendar limits recurring events to have a maximum of 730 occurrences in the series[1]. Unfortunately, they don't do a very good job of communicating this limitation in the UI. There ...
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How can I mark myself as attending my own Google Calendar event?
It turns out that the "Yes / No / Maybe" options are not initially shown for an event until you add a guest other than yourself.
If you just add yourself as a guest, nothing happens. When you add ...
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Sync Office 365 calendar to Google calendar
The best option I've found is to use Microsoft Flow with the Copy new events in Office 365 to Google Calendar and send a notification template.
Events doesn't show up immediately, but it takes ...
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How to see your Google reminders on Google Calendar desktop?
UPDATE 2019/04/11
My old accounts doesn't show anymore the switch to Remainders option but accounts created this year, consumer and G Suite accounts show both, Reminders and Task Calendars. I didn't ...
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Is there a way to get Google Calendar to hide duplicate events?
Unfortunately, Google never added this capability to it's "calendar" (classic version as of fall 2017); however, there is a Google Chrome plugin that partially accomplishes this.
Event Merge for ...
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Change back to Google classic calendar
UPDATE:
It's not possible.
The support page (also mentioned in my original answer) was updated, the option to go back to classic is no longer written there, so it's not an option.
(Thanks for the ...
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How can I make a personal Google calendar show times as busy when coworkers of mine schedule appointments with our Google Apps at work?
Both your calendars are distinct, even if your personal calendar is shared with your Google Apps account.
Unfortunately, there is no native way to share a common busy/available status merged from 2 ...
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Can't change permissions for a Google Calendar that's under "My Calendars"
Okay, so I found how to do this.
You need to need to login to your G Suite admin account. Navigate to Apps -> G Suite -> Calendar -> Sharing Settings -> change the "External sharing options for ...
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Create a Gmail filter for Calendar Notifications
All calendar invites have a file attached:
filename:invite.ics
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Google Calendar not syncing calendars that have been added by URL with Windows 10 Calendar
The solution to this problem is to go to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect and tick the calendars you wish to be synchronized. Then go back to Windows Calendar, and refresh the synced ...
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Google Calendar link is not working after Publish Event?
I found the soloution:
The calendar that contains the event needs to be published.
As I did not want to make my calendar public I just created a new one.
UPDATE: As the Google Calendar interface ...
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New Google Calendar (2017) Quick Add
The workaround is to type the event in Google search, e.g.
"add to calendar some description tomorrow at 1PM"
then click on Create event.
Source: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/calendar/...
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How to limit visible hours in new Google Calendar
With the new (ca. 2017) Google Calendar, there is not a way to limit the number of visible hours. If that's a feature you think is missing, use the "feedback" tool to let them know. Otherwise, you'll ...
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Add .ics attachments in Inbox by Gmail to Google Calendar
According to this thread on Google Forums, this is a known limitation and they have it on the slate for future implementation. I expect that the more people tell Google they want this, the more likely ...
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Associate two email addresses (for invitations) with the same Google Calendar?
The instructions at http://www.tekgrl.com/accepting-google-calendar-invites-to-a-non-gmail-account/ worked for me, taking into the account the comments at the end. Here's a summary:
Google has ...
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How can I respond to Google Calendar invitations from my alternate email?
Google's instructions for this are inconsistent and split across a few different articles: Set up an alternate email, and allow responding to events from an alternate email, etc.
I've adapted and ...
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How to switch default calendar in Google Calendars
Basically, export the data, clear the calendars, import the data and rename the calendars to match the content.
Export from your default calendar (Calendar A)
Export from the calendar you want to ...
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How can I find out when I added an event to my Google Calendar?
Web version of the Calendar API is probably the easiest:
Get the event ID for the calendar event
Edit the event in Google Calendar
Copy the last part of URL (after the last "/") from the ...
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How can I copy all events from one calendar to another?
If the other calendar is shared with you and available in the "Other Calendars" section in Google Calendar, you can save the ICS version of the calendar and import that into your own.
To do ...
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