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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

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