Office 2013 In Depth

Categorizing Outlook Items

You can assign categories to Outlook items to aid you in locating and organizing information in Outlook. When items have been assigned categories, Outlook can then organize the items in a particular view by a particular category. You can also use Search to locate items assigned to a category, and you can create Search folders that find items based on category.

By default, each Outlook category is color-coded. The categories have names such as Blue Category, Green Category, and so on. To open the Color Categories dialog box shown in Figure 22.15, select Categorize on the Ribbon’s Home tab and then select All Categories.

Figure 22.15. The Color Categories dialog box.

Tip

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