holidays after 2005

[nbfs51]

I have read several threads and downloaded the recommended update for Outlook
2000 (mine is 2002) to get holidays after 2005 and it doesn't work. Any
ideas? Thanks

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

That's because the file for Outlook 2000 is named Outlook.txt and the file
for Outlook 2002 is named Outlook.hol. They basically have the same
structure; for some reason Microsoft just decided to rename the file starting
with Outlook 2002.

Close Outlook. Find both files mentioned above (they're probably in the
same folder -- for Outlook 2003 they're in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\1033, look for a similar folder on your hard drive, maybe
OFFICE10), then rename the Outlook.hol file to OLDOutlook.hol, and finally
rename Outlook.txt to Outlook.hol.

If you've already installed holidays from the old file, open Outlook, browse
to your Calendar folder, switch to the By Category view, select the Holiday
category and delete all entries in it. Now go back into the Add Holidays
dialog in Options and install the holidays again from the new file.

Please post back to let me know if you were successful.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Alan Smith]

I have read several threads and downloaded the recommended update for
Outlook
2000 (mine is 2002) to get holidays after 2005 and it doesn't work. Any
ideas? Thanks

Do you have the link to the holidays list?

 

[nbfs51]

It worked!!! Thanks so very much.

That's because the file for Outlook 2000 is named Outlook.txt and the file
for Outlook 2002 is named Outlook.hol. They basically have the same
structure; for some reason Microsoft just decided to rename the file starting
with Outlook 2002.

Close Outlook. Find both files mentioned above (they're probably in the
same folder -- for Outlook 2003 they're in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\1033, look for a similar folder on your hard drive, maybe
OFFICE10), then rename the Outlook.hol file to OLDOutlook.hol, and finally
rename Outlook.txt to Outlook.hol.

If you've already installed holidays from the old file, open Outlook, browse
to your Calendar folder, switch to the By Category view, select the Holiday
category and delete all entries in it. Now go back into the Add Holidays
dialog in Options and install the holidays again from the new file.

Please post back to let me know if you were successful.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***