How to Create a Google Calender Event From a Gmail Message

The Google Calendar can pick up information from an incoming Gmail message and pre-fill other information for you. You can access and use it for your everyday scheduling needs. Here how to use the calendar to schedule your events.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open a Google Gmail account if you don't already have one. Also set up a Google calendar account. It can be set up from the Gmail account. Both are free.

2. Open an email with a date in it. You can send one to yourself from another account for testing.

3. Click on the link on the right of the message that says "Add to Calendar." If you don't see that link, Gmail didn't recognize a date. You can still add a date. See Step 6.

4. Add any other details to the calendar you wish. You can edit the location and the description; add guests and their email addresses; determine if you want guests to receive email reminders of the event; set reminders for yourself that include pop-ups and various other tasks.

5. Click "Save Changes" when you have set the event on the calendar. Close the event window.

6. Add information to your Google Calendar that didn't pick up automatically by opening the message. Find the "More Actions" drop-down menu. Select "Create Event" and enter the details into the calendar manually. Choose "Save Changes" and you're set to remember your event.