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How do I add recurring events to Google Calendar?

I've been working with Google Calendar and having good success, but I can't figure out how to add recurring events to my calendar. Can you help?


Dave's Answer:

It's reasonably straightforward to add recurring or repeating events to Google Calendar in my experience, so let me show you how I do it and perhaps it'll illuminate your own situation.

Connect to your calendar, then click on Create Event. You'll now see this:

Google Calendar: Creating a repeating event

Fill out the basics, including description, time, date, location, etc., then when you're ready to mark it as a recurring event by clicking on the Repeats menu:

Google Calendar: Creating a repeating event

My event is weekly for six weeks, so I'll choose "Weekly" and suddenly there are a bunch more options for specifying the parameters of this recurring event:

Google Calendar: Creating a repeating event

The course runs through November 27th, so I choose "Until" then chose the date from the pop-up calendar. When it's all done, I see this:

Google Calendar: Creating a repeating event

Now I just choose "Save" and I'm done. Repeating event neatly and quickly created.

Hope that helps you see how to do things on your side too!









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Is there a way to edit individual dates in a recuring event? EG change the location for 1 date only

Thanks

Posted by: Poutama at April 15, 2008 6:06 PM

What program is that screen capture of? That's not a windows machine.

Posted by: Sean Gilmore at December 20, 2010 12:27 AM

How do I add recurring events to Google Calendar via my iphone???

Posted by: Rachel at July 13, 2011 2:38 PM

Far as I can tell, Rachel, there's no way to accomplish that on the iPhone at this time.

Posted by: Dave Taylor at July 13, 2011 7:10 PM

What if it is not date specific? For example, my family reunion is the last weekend in July each year, so the dates aren't the same each year. How do I enter that as a recurring event?

Posted by: Dave at August 1, 2011 2:51 PM

Unfortunately, I don't see any way to add an event on "the last Sunday in July, annually". Perhaps someone else has a trick for this?

Posted by: Dave Taylor at August 1, 2011 4:09 PM

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