[fgarcia10]

Originally Posted by shindullin

Thanks for the info. Especially dlangton's update info. I had tried the install in the past only to find that it didn't work for '03. I had never thought to look on Microsoft's site for an update. I just ended up entering in the "major" holidays when I didn't have to work by hand.

Same here, thank you guys!!!

[fgarcia10]

Originally Posted by shindullin

Thanks for the info. Especially dlangton's update info. I had tried the install in the past only to find that it didn't work for '03. I had never thought to look on Microsoft's site for an update. I just ended up entering in the "major" holidays when I didn't have to work by hand.

Same here, thank you guys!!!

[rzanology]

Thanks for this post man...i been trying to find out how to do that for a while. I posted something about that this morning....i guess you guys work fast around here...KEEP IT UP!!!!....and by the way... im a proud owner of the hp 2215 ...still in love with my 3970 though. Excuse me as i take my new child for a walk.

[christheswiss]

Jason,

I don't know about you, but I cannot get any work done, I am constantly checking your site for updates and you keep it coming, every single minute !! How do you get anything done answering all these posts, never mind posting your own very useful thoughts ...

[dh]

I learn something everyday. Thank you Jason.

[dean_shan]

Wow I'm surprise there are so many people here that didn't know that. (I admit I didn't know about it until I was poking around in Outlook one boring afternoon). You think that MS would make it know that it would do that.

[Certified Optimist]

This is quite a good trick, which I started using about 2 years back.

The only problem is that if you want to add the holidays for multiple countries Outlook create duplicates of those holidays that exist in all selected countries, e.g. Christmas (USA) Christmas (Canada) Christmas (Australia)... :roll:

Does anyone know a way around that one...? (...except for the obvious which is to manually remove them...)

Still... I prefer having duplicates than having to enter all the holidays manually...

[isilver]

Originally Posted by Certified Optimist

Does anyone know a way around that one...? (...except for the obvious which is to manually remove them...)

It's pretty simple to do but does take a few minutes depending on how many duplicates there are.

1. Open Outlook XP from your desktop.
2. Open the Calendar section.
3. Click on the view menu -> Current View -> Events
4. Right click on the duplice entries and choose delete.

That should work.

[ctmagnus]

Originally Posted by Certified Optimist

The only problem is that if you want to add the holidays for multiple countries Outlook create duplicates of those holidays that exist in all selected countries, e.g. Christmas (USA) Christmas (Canada) Christmas (Australia)... :roll:

Plus, when you enter Canadian holidays, you get four holidays on the first Monday in August by default.

Something I always, always, always do whenever I first setup Outlook for myself (or someone I know really well) is add all the holidays I/that person celebrates from all countries applicable. Then I set the Calendar to display everything by category, and weed out all the holidays I/that person doesn't want in my/their calendar. Then I delete the location info from all the holidays, so I just have, for example, Christmas, instead of Christmas (Canada).

I've been using the Holidays feature since Outlook 98 (or was that 97? :wink: ).

[ctmagnus]

Originally Posted by isilver

3. Click on the view menu -> Current View -> Events

Or View -> Current View -> By Category. That way, you can see everything that's in the Holiday category, which is all the Holidays that have been installed on the system.

Your way works too, but you don't get the nice filter and you have to pick out all the holidays from everything else. :wink:

[Iznot Gold]

A year ago, in my office at the time, we had a 'diversity' calander showing the major relegious festivals and holidays. I thought this was pretty cool so I decided to use the add holidays feature in outlook to transfer the info to my pda. I added the major relegions to the calander and synched....what a nightmare...end result....hundreds of holidays in a year...so be cautious about adding too many!!!

Regards
David