How To: Add Holidays to Microsoft Outlook
Fri May 19, 2006 11:36AM EDT
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All week I thought this was Memorial Day weekend, only to find that I had it wrong! I missed it by a week: Memorial Day is next Monday. Argh!
I could have avoided all this heartbreak if I'd simply added holidays to my Outlook calendar. If you haven't done so, it's really easy. Here's how:
In Outlook, click Tools > Options. Here, click Calendar Options...
On the following screen click Add Holidays... You'll receive a menu asking you which countries you'd like to add holidays for. U.S. is the default, but if you really want to fill up your calendar, add the holidays for every country. There's pretty much a holiday on every day of the year somewhere.
Click OK and you're done. Check the calendar and you'll see that Memorial Day is May 29, and, whaddaya know, Independence Day falls on July 4 this year!
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2 Posted by cnull on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:27PM EDT Report Abuse
yes, I meant to add this in my original writeup: the holidays only extended for a few years: the Office 2002 version stops at 2005; Office 2003 ends in 2007. Microsoft does release patches to extend the ending date from time to time, so it's worth a look online.
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1 Posted by philbrandn on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:09PM EDT Report Abuse
In MS Office XP, Outlook version 2002 only contains holiday information through 2005. So, if you have this version, you won't see any future holidays!