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I have a client who needs to sync his outlook 2016 (office 365) with his gmail contacts and calendar both bi-directionally. &nbsp;His gmail is a regular one, not a business one. &nbsp;Also why on earth isn't the desktop outlook 2016 synching with the cloud version of office 365, should actually be difficult to do in 2018? &nbsp;Thanks, gsgi
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I have a client who needs to sync his outlook 2016 (office 365) with his gmail contacts and calendar both bi-directionally.  His gmail is a regular one, not a business one.  Also why on earth isn't the desktop outlook 2016 synching with the cloud version of office 365, should actually be difficult to do in 2018?  Thanks, gsgi

Synching outlook and gmail cal and contacts

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.

Outlook

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