How to Share or Make your Google Calendar Public from Any Device?

If you use Google Calendar a lot to organize your schedule or make plans, you'll probably want to share it with your friends, workmates or family. There could be a lot of good reasons behind sharing your calendar with someone. If you also want to share your calendar or make it public, then Google Calendar gives you a simple way to do this. You can do this from any of your devices, computer, laptop, and even on a smartphone using Google Calendar in a browser.

Note: You can’t share your Google Calendar using the mobile app.

How to share your calendar with specific people

If you want to share your calendar with your friend, workmate, cousin, or anyone privately, then you can use this method. Google Calendar can also be shared publicly, for which the next method has given. The instructions provided are for a desktop browser, but you can perform them on a mobile browser, as well.

1. Open an internet browser on your device.
2. Enter “calendar.google.com” into the search bar and press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ button. Doing so directly opens the Google Calendar in your browser.
3. You may have to enter the email and password of your Google account to login first. If a Google account is opened previously, then you won’t get the option to log in.
4. Once you have signed in to Google Calendar using your account, you can see all of your calendars listed in the column located at the left side of the screen under “My calendars” heading. If you don’t see any of your calendars here, then click the downward-facing ‘Arrow’ button given adjacent to ‘My calendars.’
5. Look for the calendar you want to share and hover the mouse cursor over it. Doing so highlights that calendar and shows the ‘More’ button for it.
6. Click on the ‘More’ (Three dots) button. It will show you different options for the selected calendar.
7. Click on ‘Settings and sharing’ under the more menu. A new page will load with settings for the selected calendar.
8. Go to the ‘Share with specific people’ heading.
9. And, click on the ‘+ Add people’ option. This will open a dialog box on the screen with the Add email and Permissions field.
10. Click on the add email field and input the email of the person you want to share your calendar with. You can also select a person from the suggested options.
11. After adding a person’s email, click on the ‘Permissions’ dropdown button to set the permissions for the person you’re sharing your calendar with. You’ll see permissions options under the dropdown button.
12. Click to choose your desired permission option.
13. After that, check your entered info once and then click the ‘Send’ button.

The person will be invited to your shared calendar. They can use the invite email to access and view your shared Google Calendar.

How to share your Google Calendar publicly

If you want to make your Google Calendar public, so that anyone from the world can access it and view your events, then go with this method. Here is how to make a Google Calendar public.

1. Open an internet browser on your device.
2. Enter “calendar.google.com” into the search bar and press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ button.
3. You may have to enter the email and password of your Google account to login in first. If a Google account is opened previously, then you won’t get the option to log in.
4. Look for the calendar you want to make public under the ‘My calendars’ heading in the left column. Click the downward-facing ‘Arrow’ button given adjacent to ‘My calendars,’ if none of your calendars appear there.
5. Hover the mouse cursor over the calendar you want to make public, and then click on the ‘More’ (Three dots) button.
6. Click on ‘Settings and Sharing.’
7. Now, go to the ‘Access Permissions’ section in the page load with the calendar’s settings.
8. Click the box of ‘Make available to the public.’
9. Read the Warning message and click on ‘OK.’ Doing to make your selected calendar public. Now, you will get a link through which you can share the calendar with people.
10. Click on the ‘Get Shareable Link’ option. A pop-up box will open with the link you can share your calendar.
11. Click on the ‘Copy link’ option to copy the given link.

You can now paste the copied link anywhere to share your calendar.

Bella Williams, an employee currently living in USA and working at a top printer service provider company in the day, and a technical writer at night. I am passionate about writing troubleshooting tips, beginner’s guides, news and other articles on varied topics like kodak printer support, Dell Printer Support, Kyocera Printer Support etc.

How to Adjust the Screen Resolution in Chromebook?

Screen resolution matters a lot in order to run and view the programs without any issue on a computer. There are several games, and apps that need low or high screen resolution to work smoothly. Many times, adjusting screen resolution resolves many displays and other associated issues in a device. Google Chromebook laptop allows the users to change the display settings, including screen resolution easily. There are two ways to adjust the screen resolution in Chromebook, through settings or Keyboard shortcut. For any reason, if you require to change the Chromebook’s screen resolution, then both methods are described in the article.

Steps to change Chromebook’s screen resolution from settings

Chromebook supports a number of screen resolutions and gives you the freedom to choose your desired one. You’ll need to go to the display settings under your Chromebook settings to view and change the screen resolution in your device. Here is how.

1. Start your ‘Chromebook’ laptop.
2. Now, click on your ‘Account’ picture near Wi-Fi and Sound icon at the bottom right corner of your Chromebook desktop. This pops up a small menu at the same corner.
3. Click on ‘Settings’ in the pop-up menu to access the Chromebook Settings. Alternatively, you can choose ‘Settings’ from the browser menu.
4. Now, click the ‘Search’ box of the settings window.
5. And type ‘display’ into it.
6. When you see ‘Display Settings’ option in the search, click on it. This will open your Chromebook’s display settings.
7. Click on the ‘Resolution’ dropdown button to view screen resolutions list.
8. Now, choose a higher or lower resolution according to your need.
9. After selecting, click on ‘Done’ to save.

The selected screen resolution will be applied to your Chromebook. You can always adjust the screen resolution in your laptop from here.

Steps to change Chromebook’s screen resolution using Keyboard shortcuts

The above process is the standard way to change the screen resolution not just in Chromebook, but also in all the computers. Unlike other computers, there is one more way for changing the screen resolution in the Chromebook laptop. You can use some simple keyboard shortcuts to lower or increase the screen resolution in your Chromebook. Here are these keyboard shortcuts and ways to use them.

•  These keyboard shortcuts are simple and easy to understand; you just have to press ‘Ctrl + Shift and - or +’ button.
• To lower the screen resolution, press ‘Ctrl + Shift and -‘ buttons together.
• And to raise your Chromebook’s screen resolution, press ‘Ctrl + Shift and +‘ buttons together.

When you adjust the resolution with the keyboard shortcut, a message will appear near the bottom confirming that the screen resolution of your Chromebook has been changed.

How to access and adjust your Chromebook’s display settings

If you want to adjust the orientation, mirror your Chromebook screen, etc., then you can do all these from the display settings. Here is how to access and adjust Chromebook’s display settings.

1. Launch ‘Chrome’ browser on your laptop.
2. Wait for it to start, and then open the browser menu by clicking the ‘Three dots’ near the top.
3. Go down in the browser menu and click on ‘Settings.’ The settings window will open on the screen.
4. Go down to the Device section.
5. And click on ‘Displays.’

Once you reach here, all the Chromebook display settings will appear. See what you want to adjust and use their buttons to tweak the settings.

Bella Williams, an employee currently living in USA and working at a top printer service provider company in the day, and a technical writer at night. I am passionate about writing troubleshooting tips, beginner’s guides, news and other articles on varied topics like dell printer support, Sony Printer Support, Kodak Printer Support etc.