I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendar for all of my scheduling. I got in the habit ofusing Outlook Calendar at work for scheduling meetings, vacations, etc. So it is convenient to use at home for scheduling get-togethers with friends, administering dog medication, doctor appointments, etc!

For some reason it has taken me until today to realize – wouldn’t it be great if I had all of the United States Holiday’s in the calendar as a little reminder of when they were coming up?

So I googled around expecting to have to find some download someone made that would include a calendar import for Outlook. To my pleasant surprise, the functionality is built right into Outlook:

• Open Outlook and select ‘Tools | Options’
• On the ‘Preferences’ tab select ‘Calendar Options’
• Click the ‘Add Holidays’ button
• Select your country and then click ‘OK’
• After a quick import, all the holidays will show up on the Calendar

If you need to delete them:

• Go to the Calendar screen
• Select ‘Current View | Events’
• Delete all the ones you want from the list

Next step for me is going to be adding birthday’s to the calendar!