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

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Nov 5

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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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