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How to import Facebook events to iCal or Entourage

Mac Office

This brief tutorial will guide you through the steps required to export Facebook events and import them to iCal or Entourage on your Mac.

  1. Find the Facebook event you want to add to iCal/Entourage and click the Export button.
  2. a facebook event

  3. Save the .ics file to your desktop or downloads folder.
  4. firefox save as window
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  5. Navigate to that downloaded .ics file and double-click it.
  6. an ics file

  7. iCal will pop up a window asking you which calendar you want to add the event to. Select the appropriate calendar and click OK.
  8. ical asking which calendar you want to add an event to
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  9. And now that event will be added to iCal :)
  10. ical with an event

  11. If you want to add the event to your Microsoft Entourage calendar, right-click (ctrl-click) the .ics file and select Open With and then Microsoft Entourage.
  12. right-clicking an ics file and selecting open with then MS entourage
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  13. Entourage will open (if it isn’t already) and add that event to your calendar.
  14. an event in entourage
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  15. Now that the event has been stored in iCal and/or Entourage, you can delete the .ics file.

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  1. Adam says

    it seems that this function is gone! The export button no longer appears for me in events :(

  2. Ross says

    Adam -

    It’s still there for me, I just checked 5 different events – including ones that I’m not attending (I thought maybe it only showed up if you’d selected “Attending”). Perhaps it’s specific to certain events only (?) or the event creator has to enable it, and they didn’t for the event you’re looking at….

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