Adding Holidays to your Outlook Calendar

You can add a variety of holidays and events to your Outlook Calendar by doing the following:

Adding holidays

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar Options.
2. Under Calendar options, click Add Holidays.
3. Select the check box next to each country/region whose holidays you want to add to your Calendar, and then click OK. Your own country/region is automatically selected.

Notes

1. By default, no holidays are loaded when you begin using Outlook.
2. The holiday information provided with Outlook includes calendar years 2001 through 2005.

Removing holidays

1. Click Calendar.
2. On the View menu, point to Current View, and then click Events.
3. Select the holidays you want to remove. To select multiple rows, press the CTRL key and click subsequent rows.
4. Click Delete on the standard toolbar.
5. IMPORTANT NOTE!! Be sure to go back to the View menu, point to Current View, and then click Day/Week/Month!!!
   

Tip
To quickly remove all of the holidays for a country/region, click the Location column heading to sort the list of events so that it displays all of the holidays for a country/region together.