Using Outlook's Calendar

Create a Custom Holiday File (HOL) to share any type of all day event with other Outlook users. We include a sample file that counts the days since Jan1 and the number of days left in the year.

Many people want to be able to color-code their Outlook calendars to distinguish between business and personal appointments, for example. Having been on the wish list for years, this feature finally arrives in Outlook 2002 in the form of Labels and Outlook 2007 adds colors to categories. See Understanding Outlook's Calendar patchwork colors for display  

Outlook includes a list of holidays you can add to your calendar. We have links to updated (including an updated list with holidays beyond 2012) and corrected holidays for all versions of Outlook, along with instructions to make your own company holiday lists.

Microsoft Outlook comes with a file named Outlook.hol that includes lists of holidays that you can import into your personal Calendar folder using the File, Options, Calendar, Add Holidays command. This makes it easy to add holidays and many users wind up importing the same group of holidays twice or adding extra holidays. If you  

How to remove cancelled meetings from an Exchange server resource calendar.

Recurring appointments are a problem for many users: you can't end a series without losing exceptions and no one can cancel meetings created by users who no longer have a mailbox. For this reason, we always recommend using a recurrence period of no more than a year.

Use Outlook's Rules Wizard and a Run a Script rule to autoaccept (or decline) meeting requests in Microsoft Outlook. Includes a version that checks your Free/Busy status before accepting (or declining).

When you create a meeting request in a secondary calendar, you'll get a message that responses to the meeting request won't tally because the meeting is not in your default calendar: This meeting is not in the Calendar folder for this account. Responses to this meeting will not be tallied. Do you want to send anyway?

We're seeing complaints that Outlook automatically sends meeting updates to the attendees several times a day. When users delete the responses from their inbox it triggers another update to attendees. The good news: it’s not user error. The bad news: it appears to be a problem only for people who sync iPhones with Exchange. The  

When a meeting invitation is deleted from the Inbox, the tentative copy of the associated meeting remains in the Calendar.