#HOW TO ADD ICAL TO OUTLOOK 2016 FREE#
I have not tested, but believe this would also work with a free account at (the artist formerly known as Hotmail). ics file opened properly as an invitation (not a separate calendar) even in Outlook 2016. I saved that file, edited it with a text editor and made the MAILTO address in it my work email address (my O365 email address is something hilariously weird), saved it, and tried that file. So I right clicked it, selected “Forward”, and sent it to my work Gmail account. I set up an event in that calendar, but couldn’t find any “export” or “save event file” on the online GUI. Joey D’Antoni reminded me of that, so I logged in there and opened the calendar app. I am lucky enough to have a free O365 account as part of my MVP benefit from Microsoft. I didn’t want a calendar, I wanted an invite! What worked: generating the invitation file from my O365 account It worked well on iOS, but my friend Steve Jones found that this didn’t open as an invite for him on Outlook 2016, but instead popped up a separate calendar under my email address which he could add as a calendar. (I highly recommend this step!)īut I found this still wasn’t perfect. ics file and opening it in a text editor to verify that it contained only a single event, and not my entire personal life (or lack thereof). I also added the extra step of going to the saved. This time, I right clicked on the event in iCal, selected “Mail Event”, then saved the attachment from the email. Generating an invitation file - a better attempt on a Mac, but still not great Everyone may as well know.Īfter quickly deleting that file and clearing every single cache I could find related to my webserver, I tried again! After all, I probably wasn’t going to make this worse.
While we’re being open, I’m going to also share with you, dear reader, that I find botox very effective at temporarily removing forehead creases. Luckily, I don’t use that calendar for business, so it was only chunks of my personal life that I exposed. And if you’re me, that means that after you test this file yourself, and it looks normal, you then ask others for a quick test on Twitter and find that you’ve shared events such as “Meatloaf Eating and Motorcycle Racing”, “Kendra eye surgery with Jeremiah as magnificent chauffeur”, and “Paws Cut Off” along with your intended event.Īnd by the way: my dogs have all their paws, one of them is just a real drama queen every time he gets his nails clipped.
Nope, that exports the ENTIRE CALENDAR you’re on. I thought that would export the event I had selected. So I went looking up in the ‘File’ menu and found an ‘Export’ option. I created the event, and then right clicked, and I didn’t see an ‘Export’ option. I use a mac, so my first attempt was to generate the file using iCal, aka Calendar.app.
#HOW TO ADD ICAL TO OUTLOOK 2016 MAC#
Generating an invitation file - what not to do on a Mac Note: if you want to skip the long story, there’s a recap of the steps that work at the end of the post. Here’s what I goofed up, and how I got it working. It seems like it’d be an easy enough thing to generate a file for this invitation and embed it on a Wordpress page, but I managed to mess this up six ways to Sunday recently. Lots of us live and die by calendar invites, so this can be helpful to get people to attend. Let’s say you’ll be doing an event soon – say a Facebook Live event– and you want to create a calendar reminder for folks to download.
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