download and display holidays on calendar

[Guest]

1. The ability, through Office update, to download and display a list of
holidays to display on the calendar. Select holidays or holiday groups to
filter out.

2. For example, if I'm Jewish or Buddhist, I might not care to see
Christmas, Easter, etc. Or vice versa.

3. This might open up a cool opportunity to create holiday-ish icons on
calendar days, which could optionally be links to holiday websites, or just
tooltip-like pop-up windows describing what the holiday is about, a short
history and description, etc.

4. Set up reminders on certain holidays.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

1. Already exists.

2. You can already select what holidays to display from the Holidays option.

3. a. Icons are not supported in Outlook Calendar - not sure why but I seem
to recall the formatting was a problem.

3. b. http://www.calendar-updates.com does a great job already... why
reinvent the wheel?

4. Do it manually or for the entire category of holidays.


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After furious head scratching, dvanderboom asked:

| 1. The ability, through Office update, to download and display a list
| of holidays to display on the calendar. Select holidays or holiday
| groups to filter out.
|
| 2. For example, if I'm Jewish or Buddhist, I might not care to see
| Christmas, Easter, etc. Or vice versa.
|
| 3. This might open up a cool opportunity to create holiday-ish icons
| on calendar days, which could optionally be links to holiday
| websites, or just tooltip-like pop-up windows describing what the
| holiday is about, a short history and description, etc.
|
| 4. Set up reminders on certain holidays.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...33d97&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring