Google Calendar Out Of Office

Why setup Out of Office?

• • Auto Decline meetings
  • Allow team members to know that you are out of the office if they try to book a meeting.
  • Auto Decline all events with a custom message.

How to set up out of office in Google Calendar

• From your Google calendar click the Create button on the top left
• Click on “Out of Office”

• Create the event as you normally would with any other event.
  • • • It’s a little tricky to create OOO events for multiple days, especially if one of the days is a partial day. 
      • If you click on the time check “All Day” you can now choose multiple days
      • If you check “All Day” and select multiple days, then uncheck “All Day”, you can then select multiple days and multiple times.
• Decide how you want the calendar to handle invites if you have selected to “Automatically decline meetings”
  • • • Select whether you want to decline
      • Only new meeting invitations
      • New and existing meetings
      • Fill out your auto decline events message.
• Click Save.