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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?


Dave's Answer:

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:

Google Calendar: read only shared calendar events

The event I wanted to copy across was "Yahoo Tech Evangelists", so I clicked on it to get a detailed event view:

Google Calendar: read only shared calendar: event details

The key spot to look for is the "More Actions..." menu just above the Options area on teh event display. Click on it and you'll see just what we need:

Google Calendar: event: Copy To another calendar

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:

Google Calendar: copied calendar event

Finally, I clicked "Save" after ensuring everything was as I preferred and saw this:

Google Calendar: read only shared calendar event: copied and shown

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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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?

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