Outlook For Dummies

Chapter 12

Integrating Outlook with Google and iCloud

IN THIS CHAPTER

Accessing Google Calendar items in Outlook

Accessing Gmail contacts in Outlook

Integrating Outlook with iCloud

Outlook is great when you’re working on a Windows PC, but it’s unrealistic to assume that that’s all people will use. Especially when you’re using a mobile device, you may prefer a Google application or the native apps on your iPhone.

Outlook actually integrates fairly nicely with both Google and Apple products, but it isn’t obvious how to set up those connections. You could scour the Internet for hours clicking on articles that supposedly explain how to do it, but many of them are just clickbait for some add-on application that someone wants to sell you.

Alternatively, you could read this chapter, which explains in no-nonsense terms how to set up those connections. And I promise I won’t try to sell you anything. Well, except this book.

Integrating Google Calendar with Outlook

If you want items from a Google Calendar to appear in Outlook, you have two choices: You can synchronize the calendar in Outlook or you can import it. If you subscribe to it, the Google Calendar content will automatically synchronize ...