Brief poll: Is "add holidays" good?

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Am using Outlook 2002. Would appreciate several opinions on this...
Wondered how good does the "add holidays" function work...

Tools > Options > Calendar > Add Holidays

It says it has a range of 2001 to 2005. Does this mean, once triggered, it
enters (splatters) all-day appointments titled "New Years Day, Independence
Day, etc." through all 4 years? Does it use a color or something to make it
stand out?

It says, to remove a holiday, click on it and delete. Does that mean, if I
don't like it, I'd have to go thru and remove EACH one by hand, one at a
time?

Thanks
 
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George said:
Am using Outlook 2002. Would appreciate several opinions on this...
Wondered how good does the "add holidays" function work...
Click to expand...

It should work fine if your holidays file is up-to-date...which yours will
be for 2 more years.
Tools > Options > Calendar > Add Holidays

It says it has a range of 2001 to 2005. Does this mean, once
triggered, it enters (splatters) all-day appointments titled "New
Years Day, Independence Day, etc." through all 4 years? Does it use
a color or something to make it stand out?
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Yep, that's what it means...although they're actually all day "events", not
appointments (which means each of them will just appear as a banner at the
top of the day block, and will not have start and end times). No colors are
used by default, but in Outlook 2002 you can add color labels to them if you
like.
It says, to remove a holiday, click on it and delete. Does that
mean, if I don't like it, I'd have to go thru and remove EACH one by
hand, one at a time?
Click to expand...

You could do it that way or you could switch to the By Category view of your
Calendar folder, expand the Holiday category, and delete them from there.
Note that if any of them are recurring events, deleting an entry will delete
the whole series of that particular holiday. I don't think the Add Holidays
feature usually adds recurring events, though -- it adds single events,
which is why you won't have anything after 2005. Personally, after adding
the holidays once, I turned almost all of them into recurring events so I
wouldn't have to update my holidays file every few years. For something
like Easter, which doesn't have a simple recurrence pattern, you'd have to
add the dates manually -- there are plenty of websites that list Easter
dates far into the future.
 
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