---
title: "Create a Group Calendar in Outlook"
url: https://lookeen.com/blog/create-a-group-calendar-in-outlook
lang: en
description: "A shared calendar can be extremely useful in many areas. We will show you how to create a group calendar in Outlook."
author: "Ben Golling"
published: 2016-04-15T12:53:17+00:00
modified: 2026-11-11T06:00:38+00:00
---

# Create a Group Calendar in Outlook

If you want to share your appointments with friends, family, or colleagues, it makes sense to use a shared calendar. Such a group calendar can effectively help you better coordinate your appointments with other people. In this article, we will show you how to easily create a group calendar in Outlook.

Creating a Group Calendar in Outlook

The great advantage of a group calendar is that everyone can see at a glance whether and when other group members have appointments. Additionally, more detailed information about each appointment can be viewed with a simple click on it. This offers advantages not only in the work environment, but appointments can also be planned better in private life. For this, it is not even necessary for the calendar to be shared. Even without the calendar sharing, every participant can see the appointments of others.

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## How to Create a Group Calendar in Outlook

To create a group calendar in Outlook, you simply need to follow this guide:

1.  Open Outlook and click – [as described in this article](https://lookeen.com/blog/how-to-create-an-additional-calendar-in-outlook/) – on the calendar icon located at the bottom left. The calendar view will open.

2.  Now click on **„Calendar Groups“** in the **„Home“** ribbon. Here you can either create a **„New Calendar Group“** or save your current calendar **„As a New Calendar Group“**.

![Create New Calendar Group](https://lookeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Gruppenkalender-in-Outlook-erstellen-Neue-Kalendergruppe-erstellen-e1460386684491-1.jpg)

3.  Give your new calendar group a name. After confirming it with **„OK“**, you can select group members from the contact lists of your email addresses. Once you are finished, confirm this selection as well with **„OK“**.

## Sharing Calendars and Planning View

If you also want to share the calendar with group members, you simply need to select in the ribbon **„Share Calendar“**. However, this will also allow other users to edit the calendar. You can also publish your calendar to the internet via „Publish Online“. If you have a web server that supports WebDAV, you can also publish the calendar on it.

If you create multiple group calendars in Outlook, please note that they will automatically be displayed in the planning view starting from five calendars. If you prefer a different view, you can set in the calendar options at which number of calendars the switch to the planning view should occur.