Assign and Remove Categories

July 14, 2003
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Tip 1: Assigning Categories

Quickly and easily assign Categories to any Outlook item by using a group by category view and dragging items to other groups.

You can use this method to:

  • Change company names
  • Change Private field to Yes or No
  • Change many of the editable fields
Drag to Categories

**Note: This only works to add categories (or other fields), it will not remove them.

Published July 14 2003

Tip 2: Removing Categories

Yesterday’s tip was how to drag items between groups to add categories. While you can add categories using this method, you can’t use it to remove them, even by dragging the item to the (none) group.

Today’s tip is how to remove extra categories.

  1. Select the items you want to remove from a category (can select multiple items)
  2. Right click and choose Categories from the context menu
  3. Remove the check mark from the category or categories to remove the item(s) from the category
  4. Category picker

    Note: In Outlook 2010 and 2007, the selected categories are (faintly) highlighted and you’ll click on the category to deselect it.

    *** You can add categories to selected items using this method too ***

    Published July 15 2003

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