How to share your Outlook.com or Hotmail.com Calendar

The calendar apps is now a built-in apps in computers and in other handy techy gadgets like tablets and smartphones. This means that you can easily have a calendar app in your device. This article describes how you can share your Hotmail or Outlook.com calendar.

Reasons to Use a Calendar App

Many people are using smart gadgets with free built-in calendar application but they did not even know about it. As a result, they just left the app unused. Here are some reasons why Calendars are useful in today’s inteconnected world.

Here are the benefits of using a calendar:

1. You can organize your events and tasks
2. You can easily have a list of regional or national events like holidays populated in the calendar
3. You can access your calendar with your device, you can access it anywhere when it is cloud-based
4. You can distribute your calendar easily through sharing and invites
5. You can sync your calendar to all devices that you use

If you have an Microsoft account, or an email account ending with @hotmail.com, @outlook.com, @live.com, @msn.com or any of its regional variants, you also have a Hotmail or Outlook.com calendar. The procedures described below shows how to share your Outlook.com/Hotmail calendar.

How to Share Outlook.com/Hotmail Calendar

1. Use any of your favorite browsers and go to http://hotmail.com
2. Sign in to your Hotmail/Outlook account.
3. By default, you will see your Hotmail or Outlook.com Inbox. To switch to or view your calendar, click on the small Outlook.com/Hotmail settings button at the top left corner of the page. Then it will bring up the Hotmail menu as shown below. Then click on Calendar.

4. You shall see your calendar. Using the menu found at the top, click on the Share then click on the calendar name that you want to share.

5. In the page that appears, enter ALL the email addresses of the people whom you want to share the calendar.
6. In the drop-down selection, select Co-owner if you want the people whom you shared the calendar to have full access to the calendar.

7. Finally, click on the Share button.
8. The people whom you shared your calendar to will then receive an email notification about the calendar you shared. They can accept or decline the sharing request.