Create Recurring Events in Google Calendar

This App Guide tutorial covers making a Google Calendar event repeat. According to the creator's description, it starts with the basic repeat settings and then moves to the custom recurrence builder for patterns the presets do not cover, such as every other Tuesday, the last Friday of the month, weekdays only, or a series that ends after a set number of occurrences. It also covers editing or deleting part of a repeating event and choosing whether a change applies to one event, that event and later ones, or the entire series. The video runs 355 seconds.

How to Create Recurring Events in Google Calendar, by App Guide on YouTube. 5 min 55 s.

Video length
5 min 55 s
Time to do it
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Difficulty
Easy
Steps
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What this tutorial covers

  • Basic repeat settings plus the custom recurrence builder, including patterns such as every other Tuesday, the last Friday of the month, weekdays only, and a series that ends after a set number of times (as listed by the creator).
  • Editing or deleting a recurring event, including the choice Google presents between this event, this and all following events, or all events.
  • The creator states that choosing the wrong scope when changing a repeating event can undo months of scheduling.

Limits and exclusions

  • The supplied description does not identify a device, app version, or Calendar interface, so it is not stated whether the walkthrough shows desktop or mobile.
  • No chapter markers, transcript, or comment data are supplied, so the page cannot list timestamps or detailed steps.

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