Avoid manually entering events. It's easy to add iCal invites (.ics files) to your Google calendar if you follow these simple steps.

Can I Import an ICS file into Google Calendar? To import a .ics or iCalender file to your Google Calendar, open Google Calendar Settings and navigate to Import & export tab. Next, select the .ics ...

Fix: Set iCal to open ".ics" filetypes Locate a calendar file either in a received or sent email iCal invitation, or by opening iCal and exporting a calendar to the desktop.

Launch iCal, then click the "File" menu and choose "Import" to open the Import dialog box. Click the "Import an iCal file" button.

1a. Locate file, open it. Follow on-screen instructions for install. --OR-- 1b. Open iCal 2. Select File > Import > Import… from the menu 3. Find and highlight the desired .ics file 4. Click ...

To check which email account is being appended to invitations in iCal, users can open the sent iCal event in TextEdit (right-click the ".ics" file and select "open with").

Outlook uses the vCalendar file format for invitations, but the Gmail calendar uses the iCalendar, or "iCal," format.

Now choose File -> Import, and leave the radio button on the default Import an iCal File selection; then click Import.

MacOSXHints has a slick tip on creating clickable iCal events that are either URLs or links to files. Sure, you can add a URL to an event's description, but with this simple method you can create ...