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Name it “junk,” or “osdifj,” or whatever you want, you can delete it later.

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Optional: How to create a temporary calendar: Click the down arrow to the right of “My Calendars” in the left hand column to create a new calendar. If this is just an intermediary step, I recommend creating a new temporary / junk calendar for this purpose. If this is home base for you, you can import the events directly to your calendar. Figure out which one has the data you need with Quick Look or a text editor, you can delete the other. If you have multiple sheets in Numbers, it will export to a folder with multiple. AFAIK, the equivalent functions in Excel and Google Docs should work just as well.

Private: Another true / false checkbox, will make events on a shared calendar private to everyone but “owners.” I think this is also optional / no response required.įile -> export in Numbers, unicode seems to work fine.

Description: The “notes” part, optional.

All day event: Will be true / false (checked or unchecked in Numbers).

Times: both “7:00 PM” and “19:00” formats seem to work.

Dates: MM/DD/YYYY format seems to work for me.

Leave the columns in the order you found them. Makes converting a bunch of “Jan 5 2002” to “” a snap. Keep in mind that Numbers can convert date and time formats pretty well by selecting the column in question and opening up Inspector (“command option i” or view -> inspector) to “cells” (a box with “42” on my version). You should take your spreadsheet schedule and copy and paste the information into the appropriate columns. These are: Subject,Start Date,Start Time,End Date,End Time,All Day Event,Description,Location,Private I think these also show up in theĮxcel version, but not in the GDocs version.īasically, it’s just a spreadsheet with the headers that Google Calendar will Rough draft format (nothing not posted here). Please note that the Numbers.app version also has some embedded instructions in First, open up a copy of my spreadsheet template, which you can In order for step 3 to work, you have to get the spreadsheet set up correctly. This is the hardest and most important step.

Use Google Calendar to export to iCalendar format (.ics, iCalendar is not the same as iCal).

Import to Google Calendar (stop here if you’re a GCal user, continue if iCal user).Give the spreadsheet the appropriate headers and format it to make Google Calendar happy.This whole process may take from 10 minutes to an hour depending on your skill with spreadsheets and a bit of luck. You don’t have to use it for calendaring, but you can. This process requires a Google Calendar account to process one of the files and spit out another format.

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Because calendaring software doesn’t know how to interpret spreadsheet information directly, I’ve developed a workflow that is a bit circuitous but not terribly onerous and allows me to bulk convert and import my spreadsheet schedules.

Unfortunately, these have almost always been in some kind of spreadsheet format (or they’re printed from a spreadsheet, which I request be emailed to me). Over the last year or so, I’ve been handed a new schedule every month or two on my rotations. I previously used Google Calendar but have recently converted to iCal / iCloud (mostly due to issues deleting events from Google Calendar with my iPhone – a bug that persisted for years and drove me nuts). Getting a syncing, mobile-accessible calendar for the lecture-based years of medical school was actually a major objective leading to the creation of our medical student group, SMRT. It’s a big deal for me – I really like to be able to look in one place to find out where I ought to be at any given moment. I try to keep all of my appointments in a digital calendar that syncs across all my devices. I think it should also work with Excel or Google Docs spreadsheets, but I can’t say for sure.

NB: This process works for me using Numbers.app, Google Calendar, and iCal.

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Feel free to reference this post as well, but the new post is much more thorough and has a few new tools that I wrote to facilitate the process of getting spreadsheet events into your calendar app of choice.

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Update May 07, 2013: This post has been completely rewritten and updated here. Bottom line: You can batch import events from a spreadsheet to iCal or Google Calendar by formatting the headers correctly, exporting / import as.