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In Outlook 2007 and older, go to Tools Options Preference tab Calendar Options and click the Add Holidays button. Select the desired Holidays and click OK. It can take a few minutes to add all the holidays, depending on how many countries you are adding. While major religious holidays are listed with the holidays for some countries, there are separate listings for Christian, Islamic, and Jewish religious holidays. You will you receive the following message if you previously added the holidays for a specific country. However, if you are upgrading Outlook or using an updated HOL file, it may be detecting older holidays. If you choose Yes and discover your holidays are duplicated, you can delete all of the Holidays and re-run the Add Holidays wizard.
Holidays for location are already installed. Do you want to install them again? See for complete instructions.
This tip shows how to add holidays of your country or any other country to the Outlook calendar. See other tip how to add custom holidays to the calendar. Dec 20, 2014 - Follow these instructions to subscribe to a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed in Microsoft Outlook for Mac. These instructions work on.
Create a Custom Holiday File Because of tighter security in current versions of Windows, it's generally easier to create a new HOL file. This has one advantage: you only need to double click on the file to open the Add Holidays dialog. You do not have to go to Options Calendar Add Holidays to add the holidays to your calendar. The Outlook.HOL file lists holidays in the following format, one date per line: location ### Holiday description, yyyy/mm/dd Holiday description, yyyy/mm/dd The ### is the total number of holidays listed for the location (or country).
Note that there is a space between the bracket and the number. On each holiday line, there is a comma and space between the holiday description (subject) and the date. United States 3 Independence Day, 2012/07/04 Thanksgiving Day, 2012/11/27 Christmas Day, 2012/12/25 To create a custom set of holidays, you can create your own HOL file in notepad by following these steps. Tip: you can work with the dates in Excel, then copy and paste into Notepad to save as an HOL file.
Open Notepad. Enter a 'county' header, in country format. For example, I might use Slipstick Systems.
On separate lines under the header, enter the events, one per line in Event subject, yyyy/mm/dd format. Save the file using the HOL extension.
Double click on the file. If Outlook is not on top of the screen, switch to it. Select the location and click Add. A version of the US-only holidays, split between Federal holidays and popular observances is available.
Right click and save the file to your hard drive then double click to add them to Outlook's Calendar. If you previously added the US holidays, you'll have duplicates.
Remove the duplicates by deleting the holidays in the United States location. Has an.ics file available for download. This will work with Outlook 2003 and newer, as well as with most other calendaring applications and services. The Israel and Jewish holidays are in the HOL file using Hebrew calendar dates (i.e. Yom Haatzmaut,5773/8/6,8) and Outlook 2003 is not able to import them. Is a Gregorian date version for Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003.
For importing into Outlook.com Import Holidays You can use a script to import holidays into your calendar. As a.vbs file and call it from a logon script.
(If you want users to double click on a file to run, use the.HOL method instead.) Const olFolderCalendar = 9 Const olAppointmentItem = 1 Const olOutOfOffice = 3 CRLF = chr(13)&chr(10) 'Wscript.echo 'Importing 2017 Company Holidays.' + CRLF + CRLF + 'Press OK to Continue.' Why does Outlook put some Holidays on the wrong date? I don't recall any version of Outlook shipping with a perfect Holiday file. The problem is in the Outlook.HOL file used to import holidays - the author (or authors) get some dates wrong.
While we expect perfection from them, to be fair, with hundreds of locations and thousands of dates in the HOL file, its easy to make mistakes. (There are more than 21,000 holidays in Outlook 2010's HOL file.) However, it shouldn't be that hard to get common holidays, like the Monday after Easter right (that is one of the big mistakes in Outlook 2010's HOL file.) You can either move the events to the correct date, edit this file yourself, or download an updated version.
You can even create your own HOL file. A link to an updated Holiday file containing dates through 2028 is available at. For Outlook 2002 and up.
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Note, this is the same file that is included with Outlook 2010 but contains the correct dates for Easter Monday. Move Events Manually To fix a holiday that's already in your Calendar folder on the wrong date, just drag the item to the correct date. Fix a Holiday File Outlook stores a read-only text file called Outlook.HOL in the installation directory for your version and language of Office (ie, C: Program Files Microsoft Office Office14 1033), which it uses for the Options Calendar Options Add Holidays feature. You can open the HOL file in notepad and edit it.
Start Windows Explorer, locate the Outlook.HOL file. (You may want to make a backup copy.). Right-click on Outlook.HOL and choose Open with then select Notepad from the list. To edit a specific country's dates, use Find to locate the Country by name and edit the dates. To add a new location, press CTRL+END to position the insertion point at the end of the file.
Type a new country header and custom holidays using the format described below. Save and close Outlook.HOL. Note: Due to security features in newer versions of Windows, you will need to give your Windows account permissions to write to the Office xxxx folder. Fun with Holiday files: Countdown the days in a year You can use a custom HOL file for any all day events you desire.
In this example, we are going to add all day events to the calendar to countdown the days in a year, from 1 to 365 and include the number of days left in the year. Do you need to know what day of the year today is or how many days are left until the end of the year? Although Outlook doesn't display these numbers, it's very easy to create a file counting the days using Excel and import it into your calendar. The original suggestion came from 'Alawishes'.
He suggested using a CSV containing the Subject, Date, and a Category then importing it. Create a file with the Subject, Date, and a Category using Excel's fill series feature then save it as a CSV to Import into Outlook's Calendar. While a category is not required, it makes it easy to filter the events.
Using this method, you can import the events to any calendar. While his suggestion is a great idea and has certain advantages: you can choose your own category or import it into a different calendar folder, you could create a HOL file and save the Import step. In the CSV, use only the Subject and Date fields then save it and change the extension to HOL. Open the HOL in Notepad and change the line above the dates to a 'location' and the number of items in the 'location' group, in location 366 format. (The location name can be anything you like. ) Users can double click on the HOL to open the Add Holidays dialog and add the dates to the default calendar.
When you use this method the events will be added to the Holiday category. To delete these Holidays, group, sort, or filter by Location field and delete the items for your location. We have sample HOL files at Note: You may need to right click on the link and use Save Target As (or Save Link As). Microsoft migrated me from Outlook.com to Outlook Mail (to use the Office 365 GUI and Exchange Server backend). I deleted the EAS accounts in Outlook 2016 and created new ones. Autodiscover created them as Exchange accounts.
Okay but holidays are missing from my calendar. I followed the instructions on how to add holiday but they still don't show up. I can elect (enable) the separate Holidays calendar but then I see 2 squashed calenders: mine and the separate holidays calendar.
I wanted the holidays to get added and appear in my one calendar. Maybe that is not possible when using Exchange Server to sync the client and server-side calendars. There are no filters (nothing special about the view - using the default one). After adding the holidays (File - Options - Calendar - Calendar options - Add holidary to the Calendar and clicking Add Holidays, they did NOT show up in my calendar.
There is a separate Holiday calendar in my online account. I'm using Exchange Server (not EAS) to connect to my Hotmail account. As a result, OL2016 shows My Calendar and the Holidays calendar, the same ones that I see when I use the web client to view my account online. So I selected to show both of those and later found out how to overlay the calendars (i.e., visually merge them, not physically merge them). This will work for now. Each calendar's events has the same color as its tab color.
Although I found out how to overlay the calendars, I will credit Doug with coming up with that solution here.
: 100+ New Advanced Tools for Outlook.: Enable Tabbed Editing and Browsing in Office, Just Like Chrome, Firefox, IE 8/9/10.: Bring Old Menus and Toolbars Back to Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. Remove holidays from calendar in Outlook 1. Make sure that you are in Calendar section. Click View Change View List to list all holidays in order to easily manage them. If you just want to remove a holiday, please select that holiday, right-click on it, then click Delete from the list to remove it. But if you want to remove multiple holidays, please hold Ctrl key to select them one by one, and then right-click on the holiday among them, click Delete to delete all the selected holidays. But, if you want to remove all holidays from Outlook calendar, Please click View Categories.
See screenshot: 4. Then the holidays will be sorted by categories. Now, click on the Categories row, right-click on it, and then click Delete from the list. When a prompt box popping up, click OK to start removing all holidays.