If you are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of conversing with others over the Internet, don't worry. Once you take the plunge and join in, you'll find that working with discussion groups is not as difficult as you might think.
An Office Community is an online forum where you can interact with fellow Office users, get your questions answered, share ideas, and learn more about the Office products and technologies that interest you. This interaction with fellow Office users takes place in discussion groups (also known as newsgroups).
A discussion group is a place on the Internet where people interact by posting and reading messages about topics that are of interest to them and the rest of a community. Discussion groups in the Office Communities are organized by Office program, such as the Outlook New Users discussion group. Each discussion group contains a number of discussion threads, each of which contains a series of related messages. Each individual message either responds to an earlier message, or addresses the overall discussion group topic in some way. In contrast to e-mail messages that are sent to specific individuals and visible only to them, messages posted in a discussion group are visible and available to If you are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of conversing with others over the Internet, don't worry. Once you take the plunge and join in, you'll find that working with discussion groups is not as difficult as you might think.
An Office Community is an online forum where you can interact with fellow Office users, get your questions answered, share ideas, and learn more about the Office products and technologies that interest you. This interaction with fellow Office users takes place in discussion groups (also known as newsgroups).
A discussion group is a place on the Internet where people interact by posting and reading messages about topics that are of interest to them and the rest of a community. Discussion groups in the Office Communities are organized by Office program, such as the Outlook New Users discussion group. Each discussion group contains a number of discussion threads, each of which contains a series of related messages. Each individual message either responds to an earlier message, or addresses the overall discussion group topic in some way. In contrast to e-mail messages that are sent to specific individuals and visible only to them, messages posted in a discussion group are visible and available to

If you renamed your old holiday file before you installed the updates, the changes that you made to the old holiday file will not be available in the new holiday file. You must modify the new file to add your custom changes to the file so that they will appear in the new holiday file.•If you install the updates and still have no holidays past December 2006, the holiday file on your computer was not updated even though the updates were successfully installed.

To resolve this issue, follow these steps, and then install the updates.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.
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Exit Outlook 2003.
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Click Start, click Search, and then click All files and folders.
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In the All or part of the file namebox, type Outlook.hol.
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In the Look in box, click Local Hard Drives.
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Click Search.
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Right-click the Outlook.hol file, click Rename, type Outlook.old, and then press ENTER.
•If you made custom changes to your old holiday file, but you did not rename the holiday file before you installed the updates, you may be automatically reverted to the new holiday file. In this situation, you will lose your custom changes. This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:
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The old holiday file becomes corrupted.
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You repair the Outlook 2003 installation.
•If you install the updates and then add holidays to your calendar, uninstalling the updates does not remove the entries in your calendar. Instead, the version of the Outlook.hol file on the computer is reverted to the version that you had before you installed the updates.• If the holiday file is already added to the Outlook calendar, and if you add the file one more time with the new outlook.hol file, duplicate holiday entries will be created. To avoid duplicate holiday entries in your Outlook calendar, you must remove the existing holidays list from your Outlook calendar before you update your calendar with the new outlook.hol file. To remove existing holidays from your calendar, follow these steps:
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Open your calendar.
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On the View menu, point to Arrange By, click Current View, and then click Events.
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Click the Location column heading to sort the list of holidays by country.
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Click to select the first holiday that you want to delete.
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Hold down the SHIFT key, and then select the last holiday that you want to delete.
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Press DELETE to remove all the selected holidays from your calendar.

Discussion groups continue to be a great forum for asking questions, getting answers to your questions, and answering questions others have asked. So how can the new features available in Office Communities make discussion groups even more useful for you? Here's a quick summary:

• Sign in By participating in Communities, you have the chance to build a reputation, and to help build the reputations of others. Signing in helps establish a level of trust in Communities. Be sure to sign in for the best experience.
• Sign up to be notified Find an interesting thread you'd like to read when others respond? You can sign up to receive e-mail notification when someone responds to a specific thread.
• Rate a post as helpful When you read a particular post, you get to weigh in; was the information in the post helpful? Or not? Your vote counts to let others know that information in a post is helpful and worth reading.
• Rate a post as an answer When someone answers a question you asked, you get to rate the response. Did it answer your question? Or not? This feature also allows you and others to show only answered questions in a discussion group.
• Show specific threads Not only can you search by keyword to find the threads that have the information you need, but you can also show only threads with questions that have an answer, or only threads with posts rated as helpful. This helps you to get right to the information you need.
• Build a reputation As you rate posts or answers as helpful, this builds the reputation of those who posted the information. Additionally, as you answer questions that others have, they can rate your posts and in doing so build your reputation.