Outlook Calendar "Day after Thanksgiving" recurring calendar entry

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Howard Brazee

My Outlook 2003 has a recurring holiday:
Occurs the fourth Thursday of November effective 11/28/2002

How do I automate a "Day after Thanksgiving" holiday?
 
Howard said:
My Outlook 2003 has a recurring holiday:
Occurs the fourth Thursday of November effective 11/28/2002

How do I automate a "Day after Thanksgiving" holiday?
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Just create a new holiday and have the recurrence set to the fourth
Friday of November.

Malke
 
Just create a new holiday and have the recurrence set to the fourth
Friday of November.
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Unfortunately, the fourth Friday of November isn't always the day after
Thanksgiving. If November 1 is a Friday, the fourth Friday is November 22,
but Thanksgiving isn't until November 28.
 
Ken said:
Unfortunately, the fourth Friday of November isn't always the day
after Thanksgiving. If November 1 is a Friday, the fourth Friday is
November 22, but Thanksgiving isn't until November 28.
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Oh. Well, then I guess the OP will have to hand-configure the holidays
for that particular year.

Malke
 
Oh. Well, then I guess the OP will have to hand-configure the holidays
for that particular year.
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I think so. If there's a way to do what he wants, I don't know it. It would
be nice if Outlook had that capability, but as far as I know it isn't there.
 
As others have posted, the logic of a separate day can be tricky. You can extend the duration of
Thanksgiving to the next day, having it span two days. Hope that will help for your purposes.
 
As others have posted, the logic of a separate day can be tricky. You can extend the duration of
Thanksgiving to the next day, having it span two days. Hope that will help for your purposes.
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I opened up the recurring event, and don't see how to extend the
duration. So I created a new Thanksgiving holiday, made it two days
long, and deleted the old one.

This isn't quite what I wanted, but is close enough.
 
I think so. If there's a way to do what he wants, I don't know it. It would
be nice if Outlook had that capability, but as far as I know it isn't there.
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A similar want would be to have the calendar tell remind me a day
before the meeting that is scheduled for the 1st Tuesday of each
month.

As with the day after Thanksgiving, that is dependent upon a different
calendar entry. I wonder how people set up religious holidays that
are dependent upon full moons and such.
 
Howard said:
A similar want would be to have the calendar tell remind me a day
before the meeting that is scheduled for the 1st Tuesday of each
month.
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But that's easy. Outlook *can* do that. You can set a reminder for any
calendar entry and how far ahead you want that reminder is optional. The
choices include one day.
 
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