Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 4. Using Categories and Types

• Understanding Categories

• The Master Category List

• Customizing Your Personal Master Category List

• Assigning Categories to New Items

• Modifying Categories and Category Assignments

• Organizing Data with Categories

• Sharing a Personal Category List

• Using Entry Types

One of the primary functions of Microsoft Outlook is to help you organize your data, whether that data is a collection of contacts, a task list, your schedule, or a month's worth of messages. To make this easier, you can use Outlook's categories, which are words or phrases you assign to Outlook items as a means of organizing the items. For example, you might assign the category Personal to a message from a family member, to differentiate it from your work-related ...