How to add holidays to the calendar in Outlook?
Outlook includes a handy feature that allows you to effortlessly add holidays to your calendar. By utilizing this feature, you can plan your holidays well in advance and ensure all your schedules align. Interested in learning how to incorporate holidays into your Outlook calendar? Please refer to the following detailed tutorial for step-by-step instructions.
Add holidays to the calendar in Outlook
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Add holidays to the calendar in Outlook
1. Launch your Outlook application. Click File > Options.
2. When the Outlook Options dialog pops up, click Calendar > Add Holidays. See screenshot:
3. In the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog, check the box before the country you want to add. For example, if you want to add United States holidays to your Outlook calendar, check the box before the United States checkbox, and then click OK to start adding.
4. When a prompt box shows up, click OK to finish the adding.
5. Make sure that you are in the Calendar section, Go to the View tab, and change your Outlook calendar view to List, you will see all holidays from the year 2009 through 2029 are listed in Outlook. See screenshot:
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6. And also, you can see nearest holidays are showing in the To-do bar.
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