Set up your calendar for Google Workspace
On this page
- Migrate your old calendars
- Customize your work week
- Set your working hours
- Set your working location
- Manage your event notifications
Migrate your old calendars
Where were your calendars before?
Microsoft Outlook |
See Google Workspace Migration for Microsoft Outlook (GWMMO) |
HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes) |
Set import options in Calendar. For details, go to Import events to Google Calendar |
Other calendar applications or Google Accounts |
Set import options in Calendar. For details, go to Import events to Google Calendar |
Customize your work week
Choose how many days you see
After you choose a new view, it becomes your default view until you change it.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- In the top right, choose a view: Day, Week, Month, Year, Schedule, or 4 days.
Customize your Calendar view further
Choose which day your calendar week starts, set a custom view, and use an alternate calendar.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right corner, click Settings
Settings.
- At the left, click View options.
- Choose your settings. Changes are automatically saved.
Important: The side-by-side calendars won’t work for the week or month view in Google Calendar.
Set your working hours
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings
Settings.
- On the left, under "General," click Working hours.
- Tip: If your admin has turned on working location, click Working hours & location.
- In the "Working hours" section, click Enable working hours.
- Select the days you work
the times you work.
- You can split the hours you work based on when you're available.
- To add more than one time period to your workday, next to a day of the week, click Add
.
- To remove a time period, click Remove
.
- To add more than one time period to your workday, next to a day of the week, click Add
Tip: When you add work hours, the start time must be before the end time.
Set your working location
Specify work locations
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings
Settings.
- On the left, under "General," click Working hours & location.
- Select the days you work. Working hours are already selected if your calendar shows working hours.
- Next to each day, enter an existing working location or create a new one.
Manage your event notifications
Set preferences for all your calendars
- In Calendar, click Settings
Settings.
- On the left under General, click Notification settings.
- Click Notifications and select an option:
- Off
- Desktop notifications
- Alerts
- (Optional) To set up a sound for your incoming notifications, check the Play notification sounds box.
- (Optional) To manage your notifications, on the left, click your calendar
Other notifications.
- Next to each option, click the Down arrow
and select None or Email.
Change preferences for one calendar
- Open Google Calendar.
- In the top right, click Settings
Settings.
- On the left, under "Settings for my calendars," click the calendar you want to change
Calendar settings.
- Under "Event notifications" and "All-day event notifications”:
- To edit your notifications: Choose if you want to receive a notification or an email. You can change how often you want to get alerts in advance.
- To add another type of notification: Click Add notification.
- To remove a notification: Click Remove notification
.
Next: Schedule an event with co-workers
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