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Author: Kurt Granroth
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: OT: exporting calendar from Outlook to some standard format?
On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I have a customer where I need to create some web-based calendars.
> These should mostly be static, but a couple different formats would
> be nice (tables and bullet lists for example).
>
> They have calendars stored in Outlook in their email. I don't know
> Outlook. We attempted to export, but didn't have any option for
> exporting in various calendar formats (for open standards). It did
> have export to comma-delimited file, but that failed due to some
> missing Microsoft component.
>
> Any ideas on what tools or how to get Outlook to export the
> calendar in a format that I can quickly reuse?


The only way I could figure out to have Outlook export the calendar
in a useful form was to forward individual meetings in iCal format.
In at least Outlook 2003, select a meeting, click on Actions and
select "Forward as iCalendar". The resulting format is usable by all
reasonable calendar apps (KOrganizer and the like).

I haven't found any way to automatically have meeting requests be
forwarded in iCal format. Nor have I found a way to just save it to
a file.

Kurt

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