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Holidays available only through 2005 calendar year in Outlook 2002

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Article ID:811544
Last Review:May 7, 2007
Revision:2.3

SYMPTOMS

You cannot add holidays to the Microsoft Outlook 2002 calendar for the year 2006 or later.

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CAUSE

This behavior is by design. Microsoft Outlook 2002 provides some of the more popular holidays, but only through to the end of the year 2005.

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RESOLUTION

Microsoft has released Holiday update files for U.S. English.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
910619 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910619/) Description of the update for Outlook 2002: February 1, 2006

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WORKAROUND

Additional holidays are available from some third-party companies.

You can modify the Outlook holiday file to create your own updated list of holidays. To do so, follow the directions in the "Resolution" section of the following article:
280976 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280976/) Foreign national and religious holidays incorrectly added in US English Outlook Calendar G - M

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APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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