Synchronizing Calendars (NOT) -- Outlook on a Mac and Google Calendar

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

For a March 6, 2012, update to this post, please go here. After investing half a day in trouble shooting the synchronization of calendars between Outlook in Microsoft Office 2011 on a MacBook Pro and Google Calendar, I can attest that it cannot be completely automated.  Despite their impressive collective talent, the men and women of Apple, Google and Microsoft are unable or, more likely, unwilling to work together to accomplish this.

The best that can be done is to link calendar items in Outlook to iCal and link calendar items in Google to iCal.  Items created in either Google or Outlook will display in iCal.  If you want an item from Google to display in Outlook or an item in Outlook to display in Google, you will have to use the "duplicate" function in iCal to copy the item.  Once the item is copied then click on "calendar" to link the copied item to the appropriate calendar.  If the item that is to be duplicated is from Google then you have to change the calendar for the duplicated item to Outlook and vice versa.

My next effort will be to search for third part software that can automate this. If anyone is aware of the availability of such software, please let me know.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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