Holidays

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I have "loaded" US Holidays three times into my Outlook
Calendar, but they don't show up (it shows/verifies they
are "importing") on the calendar and therefore also don't
print when I want a copy of my calendar. Help!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

What version of Outlook? If you switch to the By Category view of your
Calendar folder, do they show up there, and if so, what year are they set
for (or what's the latest year any of them are set for)?

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[Thomas M. Goethe]

Actually, I am also having that problem after deleting the duplicates
using your view by category tip. I am running Outlook 2000. The holidays do
show up, multiple times, in that view after I tried reinstalling them. The
problem appears to be that they don't recur. I manually edited them so that
they would recur, but that is sort of a pain and doesn't solve the issue
with Easter. Suggestions to fix this or figure out how Outlook derives
Easter and applying that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It's true -- the holidays file that came with Outlook 2000 only included
holidays through the year 2002, and none of them are recurring (the file
just included separate holiday occurrences for each year). Re-adding the
holidays from the old file just creates duplicates of the past years'
holidays, as you have seen. Your choices are to either download and install
an updated holidays file (see
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm) or to just make the existing
holidays recurring yourself, so you never have to worry about getting
updated holidays files in the future.

For Easter, and any other holidays that don't repeat in a simple pattern,
you'd have to check the Internet for future dates and just create these
holiday events manually. That's what I did. Here's a site to help you with
the Easter dates, at least: http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html

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[Thomas M. Goethe]

Jocelyn,

Thanks! I will look at the slipstick.com file!

 

[Thomas M. Goethe]

Jocelyn,

There is some great stuff there that I will find useful! Thanks again.

 

[Karen Moran]

I'm having the same problem, we have loaded the holidays
several times and they do not appear...I switched to
Category view at your suggestion and I see they all end
2002...what next? How do we change that? Thanks!!!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

As I said in a later reply to the previous poster, the holidays file that
came with Outlook 2000 only included single occurences of the holidays
through the year 2002. Your choices are to either download and install an
updated holidays file (see http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm)
or to just make the existing holidays recurring yourself, so you never have
to worry about getting updated holidays files in the future.

If you decide to take the second option, some holidays are easier to make
recurring than others. For Easter, and any other holidays that don't repeat
in a simple pattern, you'd have to check the Internet for future dates and
just create these holiday events manually. Here's a site to help you with
the Easter dates, at least: http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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