Monday July 17th marks the half-way point of Summer… Not the technical summer but the cultural summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Well to help you track all these great holidays in between and those after GoldMine has a great ‘Holiday’ feature to put those on the calendar for you.
To set up the Holidays we’re going to start on the Calendar. Then do a Right-Click | Options | Preferences. Then click on the Holidays button. GoldMine might ask you if you want to import predefined Holidays, click “Yes” to that. You’ll see something like this:
On the left side you’ll see a series of different Holiday Categories… By clicking you can scan through them to see what’s listed. What I usually do is delete all of them except for United States as most of the religous ones have holidays listed that we still have to work on…
Once I’ve deleted all except the United States we’ll turn to actual holidays and clean up that list. You can highlight any holiday and click Remove to remove it, for example most of us work on President’s day so I’d remove that. We’ll also want to add some, like Christmas.
First click “New”. We’ll name this “Christmas Eve and Christmas” then set it to occur once a year for two days and we’ll choose December 24th as the starting day.
Go ahead and Click OK to get back to the main section and OK again to go back to Preferences and OK again to get back to the calendar.
Here’s how the Holiday will show up on the weekly view.
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