- Cozi Family Organizer: Best for Busy Families. Well-organized setup. Built-in shopping and to-do.
- Getting Started with Apple Calendar. Apple Calendar is easy to find. It’s likely to be sitting in the dock.
Original KB number: 3007307
Symptoms
Under My calendars, find the shared calendar. Point to the shared calendar and click More Settings and sharing. Scroll down to the Integrate calendar section and copy the Calendar ID (it will be long). Paste this ID into a document or website that you give to new users. Tell new users to do the following: Next to Other calendars, click Add. Apple Calendar - Mac calendar app with online syncing options. Apple Calendar is a great calendar option hamstrung by one thing: it works best on macOS and iOS. While you can access iCloud calendars from the web and subscribe to them in other calendar apps, the experience isn’t as good as using Google Calendar. See You cannot open a shared calendar in Outlook 2016 for Mac for instructions. In the Calendar Properties box, choose Add User. In the Search box, enter the name of the person you want to share your calendar.
When you open your Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, the Open Shared Calendar button on the ribbon is unavailable.
Additionally, when you point to Open on the File menu, the Calendar option is unavailable.
Cause
This issue occurs if the Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts check box is selected and the Hide On My Computer folders check box is cleared in General Preferences.
Workaround
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To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
Select the Exchange folder in My Calendars.
Open the calendar.
Expand My Calendars to display the Exchange mailbox calendar, the On My Computer calendar, and calendars that are associated with any other accounts that are open in Outlook for Mac.
Select the Exchange check box.
After you do this, the Open Shared Calendar button on the ribbon is available.
Open another user's Calendar.
On the File menu, point to Open, and then select Other Users Folder.
Search for and then select the user whose calendar you want to open.
In the Folder Type box, select Calendar.
Select Open.
Change the preferences settings that are related to the On My Computer folders.
- On the Outlook menu, select Preferences.
- Select General.
- Clear the Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts check box.
- If you want, select the Hide On My Computer folders check box.
Calendar User Guide
Share your calendar with friends and family
Share iCloud calendars with others who also have iCloud accounts. You can choose whether others can edit the calendar or only view it.
Share your calendar with coworkers
Share individual calendars or share calendar accounts with people who use the same calendar service. For example, if you share an Exchange or CalDAV server at work, you can choose whether coworkers can edit your calendar account or only view it.
Share a read-only version of your calendar with anyone
Publish a calendar to a web server or at a specific web address. Others can view the calendar on the web and subscribe to it using Calendar. Subscribers can view your calendar but they can’t edit it.
Stop sharing a calendar
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You can stop sharing or publishing any of your calendars. See the topics linked above.