Add 2021 Holidays & Events to Your Act! Calendar

It’s a New Year! Time to get your Act! calendar up-to-date for 2021.
You can quickly and easily add special dates to your Act! calendar as an EVENT. Better yet, have one person in your company add them, then they’ll appear at the top of everyone’s calendar! It’s a great way to add:

•  Employee birthdays
•  Vacation schedules
•  Trade shows

Is your office closed for Federal holidays? Add these dates and other major events to your Act! calendar for all to see so you can keep that meeting or company retreat schedule conflict-free.

You must be an Administrator or Manager to create Events in your database. If you are in a sync environment, this will need to be done on the Master Database.

1. In Act!, click Schedule, Manage, Events
2. Click Add… (for your convenience, below is a list of 2021 Federal holidays)
3. Enter the Holiday or Event Name and the Date
4. Click OK

Don’t see the holidays on your Act! calendar? That preference may have been turned off. To turn on:

1. Click Tools, Preferences, click the Calendar & Scheduling tab
2. Click Calendar Preferences button
3. Put a check in the Display events option
4. OK, OK

*This holiday is desginated as “Inauguration Day” in section 6103(c) of title 5 of the United States Code, which is the law that specifies holidays for Federal employees. Federal employees in the Washington, DC area are entitled to a holiday on the day a President is inaugurated, January 20 for each fourth year after 1965. Though other institutions such as state and local governments and private businesses may use other names, it is our policy to always refer to holidays by the names designated in the law.

**This holiday is designated as “Washington’s Birthday” in section 6103(a) of title 5 of the United States Code, which is the law that specifies holidays for Federal employees. Though other institutions such as state and local governments and private businesses may use other names, it is our policy to always refer to holidays by the names designated in the law.

***July 4, 2021 (the legal public holiday for Independence Day), falls on a Sunday. For most Federal employees, Monday, July 5, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(b).)

****December 25, 2021 (the legal public holiday for Christmas Day), falls on a Saturday. For most Federal employees, Friday, December 24, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. (See section 3(a) of Executive order 11582, February 11, 1971.)