Tip : How to Open Calendar in Outlook Express

What happen when someone send you a calendar appointment from Microsoft Outlook, but you are using Outlook Express (OE) which does not support calendar? How then, to open and view the calendar appointment content?

Very simple really. The idea is to save the Calendar from OE and then open it using Microsoft Outlook.

You probably see something like this in your OE.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0

.........blablablabla.................................

END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR


Not so readable, isn't it? Well follow these instructions and you will be able to open and view it nicely in Microsoft Outlook (to do this, you must have Microsoft Outlook already installed in your system)

1. Just copy exactly from the part where it says "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" to "END:VCALENDAR".

2. Paste that to a Notepad and do a Save with a .ICS extension (instead of using .TXT). You can name it whatever you want, for example "mycal.ics"

4. Double click and it will automatically open up Outlook and it's in your Outlook Calendar already.