OT: exporting calendar from Outlook to some standard format?

[Kurt Granroth]

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