How to Sync your Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar and Android Phone Calendar

Posted Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 5:00 am by 133 Comments
How to Sync your Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar and Android Phone Calendar
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Video: How To Sync Android With Microsoft Outlook

Many of us new Androids use Microsoft Outlook regularly for email without Exchange. Now that you have an Android phone (which requires you to have a Gmail account) you have a separate calendar in Gmail which your Android phone can easily sync with. This tutorial walks you through how to enable you to synchronize your Outlook calendar with Google calendar which will sync with your Android phone. This makes things very convenient and uniform when you can enter information in either and they all stay synchronized… and all for Free!

How to do it:

  1. Download the Google Calendar Sync software
  2. Enter your Gmail account information
  3. Select 2-Way sync as this will sync your Outlook with Gmail
  4. Set sync interval in minutes
  5. That’s it!

Note: to force the sync, simply “Right-Click” the Google Sync icon in your task tray (bottom right), click “Sync”.

Google Calendar Sync in Taskbar

Google Calendar Sync in Taskbar

Whether you enter calendar entries in Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or your Android phone, all places will be synced. For example, you add an entry on your Android phone, which will eventually sync with Gmail; later in the day you get back to your computer and open Outlook in which Google Calendar Sync will sync with Gmail.

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133 Responses to “How to Sync your Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar and Android Phone Calendar”

  1. Jessica says:

    Please add the option of which Google Calendar to sync to, or it’s own. This would be extremely beneficial – especially for those with several calendars.

  2. pkaras says:

    Just got my first android phone! I use outlook on a MacBook pro – OS10. I am beginning to get the awful feeling that there is no way for me to sync that calendar with google/android. Say it ain’t so, because that’s a deal breaker (I actually think I would rather get rid of the Mac than the phone, but finances forbid me from doing so…) Any apps to do this or advice anyone can provide?

  3. Gordon says:

    I have two corporate sync accounts and a gmail account on my driodx but only want to sync calendar to and from gmail and one corporate account.

    Gordon

  4. konaron says:

    I want to sync my palm pilot to my motorola Droid.

  5. rmast says:

    When I right click on the Google sync icon, then click on ‘Sync’, I get an error message that is same thing I keep seeing in Outlook. It says the username and password do not match. It then says to enter full email address including @domain.com. The email address the message shows is the complete email address including @gmail.com.

    How do I get rid of this error message and sync my Outlook calendar with my samsung galaxy phone?

  6. Jamies says:

    Will this method also sync my TASKS list from outlook?

    • Flexim38 says:

      Hi, I have been using ‘Blue SyncRoid’ to sync my contacts and calendars between Outlook and Android via Bluetooth. Used to forget my cable and unwilling to share my personal information (contacts and calendars) on the cloud to sync in info. Pretty satisfied with the solution. Simple and user friendly.

      They also have a trial version launched. Highly recommended. Visit http://www.bluesyncroid.com for more details. Thumbs up!

  7. Heather says:

    Question about Samsung Galaxy South 2 and outlook 2007 calendar sync. Is it possible to do a sync with outlook AND have the color coding for different events? How about if I use Google Calendar for syncing… Can I somehow get the color coding system that way?

  8. lou says:

    Wow.. it looks almost like Big Brother… Why in the world would I want all of my contacts and calendar out on the internet with Google? Who are they for me to “trust” them with my valuable information? Is this safe? What about security?

    • In the years that we have been using Google services like Contacts across several phones and tablets there has not been security issues. There is always some risk with security involving digital content storage but in my opinion very low. In this digital age it’s hard not to have your personal data online somewhere, in some fashion.

      Just by browsing our site, Google and other service providers know personal details about you; such as you Internet surfing habits. Apple and Microsoft do this as well with contacts storage. So it’s either trust these companies with your data or stick too using “the brick” phone or Startac throwback phones.

  9. tony coups says:

    htc sync required forhtc desire

  10. Emperor Crusher says:

    Actually, there are many solutions to sync the calendar and contacts with the Desire and HTC sync is not required (unless I misunderstand your comment). See http://www.syncdroid.net for a lengthly list of the options available to you.

  11. Mario says:

    After two days of trying, I figured it out. The Droid calender tries to send the information to” MY CALENDER” choose an appointment, open it and change from my calendar to calendar. Now do a sync and shazam it works.

    Good luck

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