Anyway, click on the Apps launcher icon and select Calendar from the list of apps.
As you probably know, about two months ago Google rolled out the new update and all of a sudden the Calendar button disappeared from the G-mail page's task bar. If you are logged into your Gmail account, then you will need two clicks instead of one.
How to synch Google Calendar with Outlook (read-only) Import / export calendars between Outlook and Google.Paid tools to sync Outlook and Google calendars.
Free tools and services to sync Google Calendar with Outlook.Google Calendar Sync / Apps Sync for Outlook.
In the examples below, replace street, city, state, zip and country with the corresponding address information of your starting point. This would allow you to directly jump to the driving directions interface of the web service.
Many of the web services also allow you to leave the starting address blank. If you would like the Map It function to give you directions by default, then you can customize the MapScriptURL for your mapping service to include an address as the default starting point. Setting Google as the mapping service for Map It in the Registry. In the downloadable zip-file, this format has been labeled as “bing-alternative”. If the default string fails for you, try the following instead This is because Bing accepts the address as a single query and expects you to place it in the correct order format for your country. If Bing has issues finding the address you are looking for, it could help to change the order of the URL codes for the address.
If you’re not comfortable with modifying the registry yourself, you can download this zip-file.įrom this zip-file, select your version of Outlook and execute the reg-file for the mapping service that you want. You can use the following URLs directly for the MapScriptURL value To restore it to the original service again, simply remove the MapScriptURL key. In the URL of the mapping service to be used, the address fields exposed should be replaced with the following codes for the contact fields Contact field Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ \Outlook\Options\GeneralĪs the value, this registry key requires a URL which points to a mapping service. To change the mapping feature to a different service, you can add the MapScriptURL registry key and set its value to a mapping service URL (Internet address). The Map It feature is shown directly next to the address of a contact.
Pressing the Map It button will initiate a search for the selected address using the Bing Maps service. It is shown in the Addresses section next to the selected address of a contact. The Map It feature of Outlook can be found by opening a contact from your Contacts folder. To add mapping or driving direction functionality to Appointment and Meetings, see this guide for a customizable macro. This guide will explain how you can customize the mapping feature to also act as a route planner. While the mapping function in Outlook is great to pinpoint your contacts, a common request is to also get driving directions to this contact. By default this will use the Bing Maps service but you can tweak Outlook to also use Google Maps or another mapping service. Outlook holds a mapping function to locate your contacts on a map.