Add or remove holidays in your Calendar

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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 includes country/region holidays through the end of 2007. To add holidays for calendar years 2008 through 2012.

Add or remove holidays

Do one of the following:

Add holidays

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar Options.
2. Under Calendar options, click Add Holidays.
3. Select the check box next to each country/region whose holidays you want to add to your Calendar, and then click OK. Your own country/region is automatically selected.

Remove holidays

1. In Calendar, on the View menu, point to Arrange By, point to Current View, and then click Events.
2. Select the holidays you want to remove. To select multiple rows, press the CTRL key and click subsequent rows.
3. Click Delete Button image on the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.).