Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Improving Your Outlook

Now that you know how to add, remove, and assign categories to your items, you can organize all of your Outlook folders by category and use categories to find Outlook items quickly.

One of the easiest places to start assigning categories is the Contacts folder. Generally, a contact belongs to only a few categories. You can sort and group your Contacts folder before assigning categories to make assigning categories easier. Figure 7.11 shows a typical By Company view of a Contacts folder.

Figure 7.11. Sorting your Contacts folder by Company can help with assigning categories.

It's likely that all contacts for a particular ...