Limited Holidays for Outlook 98 Calendar

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Limited Holidays for Outlook 98 Calendar

Microsoft Outlook 98 seems to know about national holidays only in the English-speaking world and about some religious holidays.

You can add holidays to your Calendar folder by following these steps:

Choosing Tools | Options, then click Calendar Options.
On the Calendar Options dialog box, click Add Holidays.
In the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box, check the countries or religions whose holidays you want to add, then click OK.

If you want to import holidays from any other country or religion other than those listed below, you can modify the Outlook.txt file, as described in the workaround.

Holidays in Outlook 98 Outlook.txt | Workaround | More Information

Holidays in Outlook 98 Outlook.txt

National holidays	Religious holidays
Australia Canada Ireland New Zealand United Kingdom United States	Christian Religious Holidays Islamic Religious Holidays Jewish Religious Holiday

Workaround

The holiday list is contained in a file named Outlook.hol in Outlook 2002 or Outlook.txt in earlier versions, found in the language specific subfolders of the Office folder. Try opening its Outlook.txt file in Notepad, correcting inaccurate dates and adding new ones (such as company events) that you want to include. You can also download a fixed copy of the Office 97 SR-1 Outlook.txt file from http://www.superlink.net/~vince/oltxt.zip. Once you have a good, up-to-date Outlook.txt file, give a copy to everyone else in your office who needs to import holidays.

For other sources of holidays, see Calendar Tools - Dates.

More Information

Calendar Tools include other sources for thousands of additional dates.

Add Holidays Form (sample Outlook form to distribute holidays company-wide)

Outlook Holidays on the Wrong Date

To remove duplicate holidays from the Calendar folder

How to Add and Delete Holidays in the Calendar (MSKB)

How to Customize Outlook Calendar Holidays (MSKB)

Updated Apr 09 2008