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Copy Google Calendar events from one calendar to another?I'm not just a big fan of Google Calendar, I also have a number of additional organizational calendars I occasionally view too. Sometimes, though, I want to copy events from a shared calendar to my private calendar. Is there any way to do this in Google Calendar? I found myself in an identical situation just a few days ago and with a bit of poking around I am glad to report that I did indeed find a way to copy events from a shared, read-only calendar to my own read-write calendar. It's a bit tricky, but let me see if I can illustrate it here. Before I do, I have to say that if you are an organization with any sort of calendar, be it a school, non-profit, charity, or government organization, it's a great idea to add all the events to a Google Calendar and then make it shared. In fact, you can search Google Calendar for shared calendars quite easily: type in a description of the organization or event you seek, then click on "Search Public Calendars". One of the calendars I subscribe to, and occasionally check by having it shown on my regular personal calendar, is for TechStars, where I'm a mentor and fan. A few days ago I noticed that some of the sharp folk from Yahoo were coming into town to talk with Techstars and I really wanted to move that onto my personal calendar so I wouldn't forget. Here's how it looked when I included the Techstars calendar: ![]() The event I wanted to copy across was "Yahoo Tech Evangelists", so I clicked on it to get a detailed event view: ![]() The key spot to look for is the "More Actions..." menu just above the Options area on the event display. Click on it and you'll see just what we need: ![]() My personal calendar is, ingeniously enough, called "Dave Taylor" so that's what I choose and then a moment or two later I was looking at the "usual" Google event display for owned events: ![]() Finally, I clicked "Save" after ensuring everything was as I preferred and saw this: ![]() That's exactly what I want. Now, when I uncheck the shared Techstars calendar and just display my own, the event is still there, with minimal effort!
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Tagged: calendars, gcal, google calendar, online scheduling, shared calendars Previous: Can I have QuickLook show me the contents of folders? Next: How do I invite a friend to join me on Facebook? Reader Comments To Date: 4nenitak said, on March 21, 2009 12:32 AM:
I really need to copy one of my entire Google calendars to another one of my Google calendars. What is the way to make a copy of an entire calendar? (it is my own) Rob said, on April 22, 2010 3:08 AM:
mommaofsix said, on September 29, 2010 2:37 PM:
I only have 2 options under More actions 'Change Owner' & 'Duplicate Event'. It does not show my others shared calendars. I realize that these are calendars you have created but I am wanting to copy paste or change color of even shared by one of my members so it labels in 'thier color scheme'.
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If I want to copy one of my own calenders in to another of my calenders to make the one and same calender do I have to copy every event or is there a way to copy everything?