---
title: "How to Display Holidays in the Outlook 2010 Calendar"
url: https://lookeen.com/blog/how-to-display-holidays-in-the-outlook-2010-calendar
lang: en
description: "Nothing is as awkward as forgetting an important holiday. We will show you how to add holidays to Outlook."
author: "Fiona Allan"
published: 2011-04-26T15:06:55+00:00
modified: 2026-11-11T07:14:53+00:00
---

# How to Display Holidays in the Outlook 2010 Calendar

A frustrating problem – when planning appointments, it is easy to overlook a holiday since they are not displayed automatically in Outlook. However, there is a very simple way to display holidays in your Outlook calendar.

## Here’s how:

[Find out here how you can locate holidays in your Outlook calendar more quickly!](https://lookeen.com/solutions/outlook-search/outlook-search)

-   Click the **File** tab.
-   Click **Options** in the navigation pane on the left.

The **Outlook Options** window opens.

-   Click **Calendar** in the navigation pane on the left side of the window.
-   Click the **Add holidays** button in the **Calendar options** section. The **Enter holidays in calendar** window opens.

![Add German holidays to calendar](https://lookeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Screenshot-Feiertage-Deutschland.jpg)

-   Select Germany (or naturally any other country whose holidays you would like to be informed about) by clicking the check box next to it.
-   Click **OK**.

Now all statutory holidays will be displayed, such as All Saints’ Day: Unfortunately holidays here vary from state to state. Now you do have all of them in your calendar – but what if you only want to see the holidays in Baden-Württemberg? There is also a solution for this, although it is not quite as practical.

![All Saints' Day DE](httsp://www.outlook-blog.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Allerheiligen-Anzeige1.jpg)

-   Click the **File** tab again.
-   Click **Change View…**.
-   Click **List**.

You will be taken to the view of all holidays in Germany up to the year 2028. Now you can sort the list, etc., and you can simply delete the holidays that are not observed in your state. Another way to display holidays for a specific state in Outlook is to download and import a text file containing the necessary information, e.g., for North Rhine-Westphalia 2011/12.

With our [Lookeen Desktop Search](https://lookeen.com/), you can also search for appointments and holidays in Outlook.