OL97: United Kingdom Late Summer Holiday Dates Incorrect

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To Correct the Dates Before Adding Holidays

The Late Summer Holiday is observed in the United Kingdom on the last Monday in August. The month of August in the years 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2005 contains five weeks. The Late Summer Holiday is incorrectly entered in the Outlook.txt file as the fourth Monday. To correctly set the Late Summer Holiday for installations of Outlook which have not added United Kingdom holidays, follow these steps:

1. Click the Start button, point to Find and click Files and Folders.
2. In the Named box type Outlook.txt. Ensure that Look In box has the entire hard drive selected. Click Find Now.
3. Double-click the Outlook.txt file. You may get a message that the file is too large for Notepad. Click Yes to open the file in Wordpad.
4. On the Edit menu, click Find. In the Find What box type Late Summer and then click Find Next.
5. Correct the incorrect date entries for the Late Summer Holiday according to the following table:

         Correct Dates           Incorrect Dates
   
         1998/08/31              1998/08/24
         1999/08/30              1999/08/23
         2004/08/30              2004/08/23
         2005/08/29              2005/08/22
   						

6. On the File menu, click Save and then click Text Document. Ensure that the file name is Outlook, and the Save As Type is Text Document and then click Save.

To Import the corrected holidays, follow these steps:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the Calendar tab and then click Add Holidays.
3. Click to select the United Kingdom check box. Click OK.

To Correct the Dates After Adding Holidays

If the United Kingdom holidays have been added to the Outlook Calendar, follow these steps to adjust the incorrect dates:

1. Click the Calendar folder for which you wish to adjust the Late Summer Holiday dates.
2. On the Go menu, click Go To Date and then in Date click to select August 24, 1998 and click OK.
3. Double-click the holiday and in Start Time click to select August 31, 1998.
4. Repeat the above steps changing the dates to correctly reflect the Late Summer Holiday for 1999, 2004, and 2005.

The Late Summer Holidays for these four years will now appear on the correct dates.