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Add Holidays To Your Outlook Calendar

Posted by on Apr 18, 2005 | 3 Comments

By default, Outlook does not display holidays on the calendar. Most people prefer having holidays listed in their calendar for reminders, planning work schedules, deciding upon holidays, and so on. If you want holidays listed, you can add country specific holidays to your calendar.

  1. Open Outlook.

  2. From the tools menu, click Options.
  3. On the Preferences tab, click Calendar Options as shown in the figure.
  4. Click Add Holidays.
  5. Place a check beside the appropriate country/countries.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click OK to close the Calendar Options dialog box.
  8. Click OK to close the Options dialog box.
  • Scott Schindler

    I followed the instructions for the calendar. It did nothing. I tried it again and it came up with a message that I have already added the holidays, do I want to do it again. I clicked NO. I can’t see the holidays in my calendar. What did I do wrong?

  • Lu

    I have been having the same problem as Scott, but have come to the conclusion that it is because I am using Outlook 2003 on this computer — when I scroll back to previous years the holidays actually are filled in on all appropriate dates from 2003-2007, but will NOT fill past there. I’m guessing it is because Microsoft planned to bring out Office 2007, and so did not build the data into the 2003 version past that year??

  • Frode Marton Meling

    FYI: To get holidays from 2007 to 2012, you have to apply this patch: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924423

    Then you can do the procedure mentioned here afterwards.

    /Frode