Navigating Google Calendar

Getting around the Google Calendar is pretty simple. The tabs along the top of the calendar allow you to see the calendar in a number of different views, including Day, Week, Month, Next 4 Days, and the Agenda view. Click a tab to change the view.

Change the day or dates you are viewing by clicking the left and right arrows in the upper-left corner of your calendar. In the Day view, clicking the arrows increments the calendar by a single day. In the Week view, the calendar advances by a week. The Month view advances by a month, and the calendar advances by four days when the Next 4 Days view is selected. In the Agenda view, the number of events that increment or decrement with the arrow keys varies by the number of events you have entered.

Notice that, as you change views by clicking the different tabs, various portions of the mini-calendar in the left column are highlighted. For example, when the Day view is selected, only a single day is highlighted in the mini-calendar. Highlighting a different number of days presents a custom view. For example, if you highlight two weeks, then two weeks are displayed in the main calendar on the right. In this example, clicking the left and right arrow keys decrement or increment the calendar by two weeks at a time.

Use the month view located in the pane to the left of the large calendar to jump to different days, months and years. Simply click on the date in the small calendar to view that day or week in the larger view on the right.

Viewing different calendars

By default, you start using Google Calendar with only a single calendar. As you create new calendars or add shared calendars, additional calendars appear in the Calendars list on the left side of the page. To choose which calendars are visible, select the check boxes next to the calendar names in the Calendars list.

More than one calendar can be visible at a time. This means that you still view a single calendar onscreen, but the events of all the calendars you select are visible in the calendar displayed on-screen. This is particularly useful when it comes to integrating public calendars.