Missing Holidays
Many of our readers use the built in holiday feature in Microsoft Outlook when planning out their calendar events. Some of our readers have had those to simply disappear. The idea of a holiday is for you to take a break, not for the holiday itself to take a break! Never fear we have a solution that will get your missing holidays back
Restore those missing holidays
Take the following steps to replace your original outlook.txt file with it and import new holidays into Outlook:
1. Quit Outlook.
2. Open Windows Explorer and go to "C:\program files\Microsoft Office\office\1033" folder. You may also search for this file.
3. Rename your original Outlook.txt file to Outlook.old.
4. Save the Outlook.txt file attached to this e-mail to that folder.
5. Open Outlook and click the Calendar folder.
6. Go to View-->Current View-->By Category. Now you will see all appointments are listed as items.
7. Click the "Category Holiday" item to delete all Holidays.
(If we don't delete them all, after importing the holidays,all [existing] holidays will be duplicated.)
8. Go to Tools-->Option-->Click the "Calendar Options" button on the Preference tab.
9. Click the Add Holidays button on the next window, then see if the proper country is selected.
10. If selected, please click the OK button. Now the new holidays after 2003 will be imported into Outlook.
More Information
How to Add and Delete Holidays in the Calendar
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197555
How to Customize Outlook Calendar Holidays
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274089
Microsoft says it may offer the updated holiday file via Office Update, although they have not done so as of this writing. So until then here is a file to help
It's a large file (over 200K), so I've zip-compressed it to just 19K; you'll need a suitable un-Zipper to decompress the file. Once you have it, follow the Microsoft directions, above, to add the new holidays to your copy of Outlook 2000.
Public Download Area: http://www.webspinnerstudios.com/files/outlook2000.zip