At-a-glance view showing holidays

[michael]

Holidays only show up in my outlook calendar display when I view a
particular day that happens to be a holiday. Appointments show as
*bold* on the month pane - so they're easy to spot. I would like
holidays to also stand out on the month pane - preferably in some
different way to appointments (to be able to use different coulours for
this would be good - but if that can't be done, then maybe italics or
something would do).

I have searched the online help and knowledge base, and done a bit of a
google search - and still can't see how to do what must surely be a
common task. Surely people before me have wanted to be able to look at
a month display (with days of the week across the top and numbers
representing the dates in a grid) and see at a glance which days are
holidays and on which days you have appointments (and to be able to
know which are which).

Regards
Mike.

 

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Holidays only show up in my outlook calendar display when I view a
| particular day that happens to be a holiday. Appointments show as
| *bold* on the month pane - so they're easy to spot. I would like
| holidays to also stand out on the month pane - preferably in some
| different way to appointments (to be able to use different coulours
| for this would be good - but if that can't be done, then maybe
| italics or something would do).
|
| I have searched the online help and knowledge base, and done a bit of
| a google search - and still can't see how to do what must surely be a
| common task. Surely people before me have wanted to be able to look at
| a month display (with days of the week across the top and numbers
| representing the dates in a grid) and see at a glance which days are
| holidays and on which days you have appointments (and to be able to
| know which are which).
|
| Regards
| Mike.

 

[michael]

OK. Thanks. Only... how? When I left-click on the "pallette" it shows a
checkbox for "Vacation" - but it's grey-ed out and inactive. What
should I look for in "help"? I did look for "calendar coloring" - and
tried Calendar|Automatic Formatting|Add|Label|Condition.. but it didn't
really seem to fit with what I was trying to do - which is surely a
very simple and common thing. Look at any printed calendar. Doesn't it
have public holidays highlighted on it in some way? This really should
be a "plain as the nose on your face" thing, imo.

Regards
Mike.

PS. I realise you must be extremely busy to be so terse, and that
you're probably really a very nice person.