Send holidays via outlook calendar

Hi All,
I want to add holidays in my calendar in outlook and want to send it to all
my colleagues so that they can accept these holidays and it shows as “Out Of
Office� for that day.

I am based in Mumbai there are a lot of holidays which are not listed in the
default list. I know I can edit the outlook.hol file but how do I send this
to all my colleagues so that just at a click of button they would be able to
add all the holidays?

“Transmit holiday form� seems to be the only option for me but I am finding
it very difficult to understand the solution given in the link
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/holiday.htm.

Please let me know of any other possible solution or a better guide to
transmit holiday form. Please help me here guys.

Many thanks
Rahul Kalwani

What version of Outlook does everyone use? Which part are you having
problems with?

If you all use Outlook 2007, I'd probably make a holiday calendar and email
it as an icalendar - the recipient would save the attachment and import it
into their calendar. (Opening it will add it to Outlook as a separate
calendar.)

Or you could save it as an icalendar and copy it to a file server then tell
the others to browse to it and import. This saves a step for each user as
they don't need to save the attachment before importing.

--
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"Rahul Kalwani" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I want to add holidays in my calendar in outlook and want to send it to
all
my colleagues so that they can accept these holidays and it shows as “Out
Of
Office� for that day.

I am based in Mumbai there are a lot of holidays which are not listed in
the
default list. I know I can edit the outlook.hol file but how do I send
this
to all my colleagues so that just at a click of button they would be able
to
add all the holidays?

“Transmit holiday form� seems to be the only option for me but I am
finding
it very difficult to understand the solution given in the link
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/holiday.htm.

Please let me know of any other possible solution or a better guide to
transmit holiday form. Please help me here guys.

Many thanks
Rahul Kalwani

thanks for ur reply Diane.

we are all using outlook 2003. If we follow your suggestion and then
calendar comes as a seprate calendar will it show out of office?

basically I want to add an appointment in my calendar which is recurring and
is non periodic...

why cant we have an easier way out for this?

Please help.
Many thanks
Rahul

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

What version of Outlook does everyone use? Which part are you having
problems with?

If you all use Outlook 2007, I'd probably make a holiday calendar and email
it as an icalendar - the recipient would save the attachment and import it
into their calendar. (Opening it will add it to Outlook as a separate
calendar.)

Or you could save it as an icalendar and copy it to a file server then tell
the others to browse to it and import. This saves a step for each user as
they don't need to save the attachment before importing.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


Poll: What version of Outlook do you use?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072


"Rahul Kalwani" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I want to add holidays in my calendar in outlook and want to send it to
all
my colleagues so that they can accept these holidays and it shows as “Out
Of
Office� for that day.

I am based in Mumbai there are a lot of holidays which are not listed in
the
default list. I know I can edit the outlook.hol file but how do I send
this
to all my colleagues so that just at a click of button they would be able
to
add all the holidays?

“Transmit holiday form� seems to be the only option for me but I am
finding
it very difficult to understand the solution given in the link
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/holiday.htm.

Please let me know of any other possible solution or a better guide to
transmit holiday form. Please help me here guys.

Many thanks
Rahul Kalwani