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How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac

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I found that the latest holidays are missing from my calendar. I checked for updates but none are there and manually trying to install the latest holiday updates gives an error that the update is already installed or does not apply to my system.

How can I get the latest holidays to show up?

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After applying updates that contain new holiday information, the newly included holidays are not directly added to your Calendar. You’ll have to reselect the option to include the holidays for a specific country in your Calendar.

On the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box, select the country and check holidays for it: 4. Click Ok to add holidays of the selected country to your Outlook calendar, for example holidays for Ukraine, United States and Thailand. How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac. This article tells you how to add Exchange and Office 365 accounts to Outlook 2016 for Mac. If you want to know how to add other types of accounts, such as Outlook.com or Gmail, see. Internet explorer for mac. Add your first account. In Outlook, select Tools Accounts. How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac. This article tells you how to add Exchange and Office 365 accounts to Outlook 2016 for Mac. If you want to know how to add other types of accounts, such as Outlook.com or Gmail, see. Internet explorer for mac. Add your first account. In Outlook, select Tools Accounts.

To prevent duplicates, it is recommended that you delete the currently imported holidays from your Calendar before importing the holidays again.

Remove current holidays

The easiest way to remove previously imported holidays from your Calendar is via the “By Category” view;

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  • Outlook 2007
    View-> Current View-> By Category
  • Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 (Classic Ribbon)
    1. View-> Change View-> List
    2. In the Arrangement group select: Categories
  • Office 365 (Single Line Ribbon)
    1. View-> Change View-> List
    2. Arrange By-> Categories

Now you can easily select all the items that have the Holiday category (by clicking on the Holiday group header) and delete them all at once. If you use SHIFT+Delete to delete them, you’ll skip the Delete Items folder and permanently delete them.


Deleting all Holidays at once is easy via a By Category sorted view.

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Import new holidays

How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac

To import the new holidays you can reselect the option for the holidays of your country in the Add Holidays… dialog;

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  • Outlook 2007
    Tools-> Options…-> button: Calendar Options…-> button: Add Holidays…
  • Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365
    File-> Options-> section: Calendar-> group: Calendar Options-> button: Add Holidays…

Holiday updates

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Below you’ll find a list of the latest holiday updates supplied by Microsoft.

  • Outlook 2007
    Includes holidays to 2028.
  • Outlook 2013
    Includes holidays to 2026.
  • Outlook 2016 (msi only)
    Includes holidays to 2026.
  • All versions(standalone hol-file)

    Includes holidays to 2028

Note: The standalone hol-file can be used with all Outlook versions and not just Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 as the download page might suggest. See below for more information on how to import the holidays included in the hol-file.

Manual holiday updates (hol- files)

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After applying updates that contain new holiday information, the newly included holidays are not directly added to your Calendar. You’ll have to reselect the option to include the holidays for a specific country in your Calendar.

On the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box, select the country and check holidays for it: 4. Click Ok to add holidays of the selected country to your Outlook calendar, for example holidays for Ukraine, United States and Thailand. How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac. This article tells you how to add Exchange and Office 365 accounts to Outlook 2016 for Mac. If you want to know how to add other types of accounts, such as Outlook.com or Gmail, see. Internet explorer for mac. Add your first account. In Outlook, select Tools Accounts. How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac. This article tells you how to add Exchange and Office 365 accounts to Outlook 2016 for Mac. If you want to know how to add other types of accounts, such as Outlook.com or Gmail, see. Internet explorer for mac. Add your first account. In Outlook, select Tools Accounts.

To prevent duplicates, it is recommended that you delete the currently imported holidays from your Calendar before importing the holidays again.

Remove current holidays

The easiest way to remove previously imported holidays from your Calendar is via the “By Category” view;

How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Mac Not Searching

  • Outlook 2007
    View-> Current View-> By Category
  • Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 (Classic Ribbon)
    1. View-> Change View-> List
    2. In the Arrangement group select: Categories
  • Office 365 (Single Line Ribbon)
    1. View-> Change View-> List
    2. Arrange By-> Categories

Now you can easily select all the items that have the Holiday category (by clicking on the Holiday group header) and delete them all at once. If you use SHIFT+Delete to delete them, you’ll skip the Delete Items folder and permanently delete them.


Deleting all Holidays at once is easy via a By Category sorted view.

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Import new holidays

To import the new holidays you can reselect the option for the holidays of your country in the Add Holidays… dialog;

How To Add American Holidays To Outlook 2016 For Macbook Pro

  • Outlook 2007
    Tools-> Options…-> button: Calendar Options…-> button: Add Holidays…
  • Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365
    File-> Options-> section: Calendar-> group: Calendar Options-> button: Add Holidays…

Holiday updates

Below you’ll find a list of the latest holiday updates supplied by Microsoft.

  • Outlook 2007
    Includes holidays to 2028.
  • Outlook 2013
    Includes holidays to 2026.
  • Outlook 2016 (msi only)
    Includes holidays to 2026.
  • All versions(standalone hol-file)

    Includes holidays to 2028

Note: The standalone hol-file can be used with all Outlook versions and not just Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 as the download page might suggest. See below for more information on how to import the holidays included in the hol-file.

Manual holiday updates (hol- files)

Outlook holiday files have the .hol extension. If you have an updated hol-file that you wish to use with Outlook, then you can simply double click it to to launch the “Add Holidays to Calendar” dialog. You can use this method for instance to import holiday updates or custom holidays or vacation lists provided by your company.

When you create a hol-file of your own, make sure you save it in the Unicode format (use the Save As… option when using Notepad).


When you have an updated holidays file (.hol),
you can double click on it to directly open it with
Outlook and select which holidays to import.

Replacing the current hol-file of Outlook

If you want it to replace the holidays list of Outlook, then you can overwrite the outlook.hol file that is located in the language ID folder of the Office installation directory.

Examples of locations:

  • English version of Outlook 2007 on a 32-bit version of Windows
    C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice121033
  • English version of 32-bit Outlook 2010 on a 64-bit version of Windows
    C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office (x86)Office141033
  • Dutch version of 64-bit Outlook 2010 on a 64-bit version of Windows
    C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice141043
  • English version of 64-bit Outlook 2013 on a 64-bit version of Windows
    C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice151033
  • English version of 64-bit Outlook 2016 on a 64-bit version of Windows
    C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice161033

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Note: To lookup the language ID folder for your language you can use this table. You need to look in the “LCID” column for the correct number.

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Note 2: Overwriting the outlook.hol file is not a supported method for Office 365 and Click-to-Run installations of Office.





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