Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Modifying Categories and Category Assignments

At some point, you’ll want to recategorize Outlook 2007 items—that is, you’ll want to add, remove, or modify their category assignments. For example, when one project ends and another begins, some of your contacts will move to a different project, and you’ll want to change the categories assigned to the contact items. Perhaps you’ve added some new categories to further organize your data and want to assign those categories to existing items. Or perhaps you made a mistake when you created an item or assigned categories to it, and now you need to make changes. Whatever the case, changing categories and category assignments is easy.

Changing Existing Categories

For one reason or another, you might need ...