Add an AddEvent calendar to the desktop version of Outlook

AddEvent provides organizations and companies a means to add their event calendars to their users' calendars. When I was helping my wife add an organization's calendar to her desktop version of Outlook, when I tried to add the calendar through the AddEvent website, I saw two options for Outlook when I clicked on Add to Calendar. On the " Subscribe to the calendar" list of email options were the following:

• Apple
• Google (online)
• Office 365 (onlilne)
• Outlook
• Outlook.com
• Yahoo (online)

When I tried the Outlook option, the AddEvent website gave me no option to download the .ics calendar file for the organization, instead the only option was to have the site open the new Office 365 version of Outlook on the system, which would force her to sync her email, contacts, and calendar with the Microsoft cloud, which I didn't want to do. I wanted the .ics file so I could add it to the older version of Outlook on her desktop system that she uses for her email, calendar, and task list. There is a way to get the .ics file and use it with Outlook or another application, but you have to choose the "Yahoo (online)" option. In step 3 for the Yahoo instructions, you will see a URL for the .ics file which you can copy and paste into a new tab in your browser, which will allow you to download the .ics file to your system.

Once I had the .ics file, I was able to click on File then Open & Export in Outlook on my wife's PC to open the .ics file I downloaded and add the organization's calendar to her Outlook calendar.

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