An Executive Assistant

I use Google Docs and Google Calendar to do most of my personal work. But if you are an Executive Assistant or Admin Assistant chances are that you use MS Office for office work. Since I am on Outlook all the time at work, I thought it would be easier to view my Google Calendar in Outlook as well. If you’d like to add your Google Calendar try what I did. I am currently using Outlook 2010.

Click Settings>Calendar after you log in to your Google Calendar. At this point you should see all the calendars you have on your Gmail account. 

Click on the calendar you would like to add to MS Outlook. I have highlighted it below.

Scroll down to the Private Address section and click on the iCAL button. 

Copy the calendar address you see on your page. 

Now that I am done with the Google Calendar, I open MS Outlook 2010. I click on File>Home tab>Open Calendar and scroll to From Internet.  

Paste the link/address you copied from your Google Calendar and click OK. 

Click Yes. 

You should see another dialog box open up asking you to add a name to the calendar. But that is pretty much it. Voila! You can now see your Google Calendar in your MS Outlook Calendar. :)

There is a good chance you have a Blackberry smartphone if you are an Executive Assistant or an Admin Assistant. My Outlook account was configured to the Blackberry on my first day of work. But I added my Gmail account on the Blackberry to make life easier. It is a very simple process and you should be able to integrate your Yahoo, Hotmail account (if you have one) using the same steps.

1. Navigate to the home screen.
2. Locate the Setup icon.
3. Click and you should see Setup Wizard or Email Settings or Email Setup.
4. Click on I want to create or add an email address and click Next.
5. The next step usually asks you to enter your email address and password. Just follow the instructions from there and you should be good to go!