Outlook should be smarter at installing holidays

[hackmatack]

Using Outlook XP I installed Canadian holidays. Then I upgraded to Office
2003 and discovered recently that my holidays end on December 31 2005. Help
file told me that Outlook 2003 includes holidays from 2003 to 2007. Upon
installing them using Outlook 2003 I discovered the holidays for 2005 are all
now duplicated in the calendar. DOH!

Obviously if Microsoft wishes (probably for marketing reasons) not to
include more future years in the holiday list, then the upgrade process
should either automatically extend holidays already installed over the
additional years, or else the manual holiday install process should be
improved so that duplicates do not appear in the calendar. It's so obvious,
Homer

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Group by category, delete all of the holidays and add them back.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Holidays change as years go by. Would you similarly berate Microsoft if, in
5 years, a new holiday was added to your nation's calendar but Microsoft, in
their infinite wisdom, did not forsee it and therefore did not include it in
the software that is five years old???

And the only obvious thing is that you did not read the button - it says
"Add Holidays" - not "Remove Duplicates and THEN Add Holidays."


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After furious head scratching, hackmatack asked:

| Obviously if Microsoft wishes (probably for marketing reasons) not to
| include more future years in the holiday list, then the upgrade
| process should either automatically extend holidays already installed
| over the additional years, or else the manual holiday install process
| should be improved so that duplicates do not appear in the calendar.
| It's so obvious, Homer
|