Hello,
From the Outlook Help file:
When you add holidays to your Outlook calendar, Outlook
uses information stored in the holiday file
(Outlook.hol). You can customize Outlook.hol so that your
company's holidays and events are stored there along with
the predefined holidays.
Note If you add the same custom set of holidays more
than once, you will get duplicate sets of the holidays in
your calendar. To avoid this, create a new custom holiday
set rather than customizing an existing one.
To customize Outlook.hol:
Quit Outlook if it is running.
In Microsoft Windows Explorer, locate the following file
and make a backup copy:
drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\1033
\outlook.hol file
Note If you are using a previous version of Microsoft
Office, replace the reference to Office 11 in the path
with the version you are using (for example, Office 10).
Open the Outlook.hol file in a text editor, such as
Notepad.
Press CTRL+END to position the insertion point at the end
of the file.
Type a new header and events in the following format:
[Country or Description] ###
Holiday or event description, yyyy/mm/dd
Holiday or event description, yyyy/mm/dd
In this format, ### is the total number of items listed
for a particular holiday or description. Be sure to
include a space between the closing bracket and the
number and a carriage return at the end of the line. Note
that on each holiday line, there is a comma and space
between the holiday description and the date, as well as
a carriage return at the end of the line. For example:
[Company Holidays/Events] 4
Company Picnic, 2003/04/15
Team Anniversary Dinner, 2003/11/15
Christmas Holiday Party, 2003/12/15
Bonus Program Payment, 2004/01/15
Save and close Outlook.hol.
The next time you run Outlook, you will be able to add
the new holiday and event dates to your calendar.
Bob Sullivan
Springhouse
