How to Add U.S. National Holidays to Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a program which not only allows you to manage your email, but manage your address book, schedule, to-do lists and customize your calendar. In addition to using the calendar to mark important meetings and birthdays of friends and relatives, you can use the calendar to mark all of the holidays which are important to you and leave the others unmarked.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Open Microsoft Outlook. From the Tool menu, select "Options."

2. Click on the "Preferences" tab. Look for the calendar section and from that section, click on the "Calendar Options" button.

3. Look for the middle section of the window which comes up for a button labeled "Add Holidays." Click on the button.

4. Choose your country from the list to add all the national holidays of your country to your Outlook calendar.

5. Put a check mark next to a religion on the list if you would also like to add religious holidays. You may add more than one religion and more than one country to display multiple sets of holidays on your calendar.

6. Click the "OK" button in the Holidays menu and then again in the Calendar Options window to apply your calendar updates.

7. Remove any holidays you do not wanted included in your Outlook calendar. Switch to the calendar view and then from the Tools menu select "Current View" and then "Events." Right-click on any holidays you do not want and click on "Delete." The holidays will no longer appear on your calendar.

8. Follow the same procedure once every year to update your Outlook calendar with the new holiday dates for the year.