Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Organizing Your Outlook Data with Categories

One of the purposes of a program such as Microsoft Outlook is to help you find and organize your data. A library or bookstore organizes its books into several classifications. For example, this book can be found under a classification system similar to the following: Books\Reference\Technical\Computer\Microsoft\Outlook. There are many ways to categorize a book, and there are many ways to categorize your Outlook items. There’s no right or wrong way to organize your Outlook items, and your methods may be completely different from any of your co-workers. The challenge is to find a system of using and assigning categories that works for you. This chapter explores what Outlook categories are and how you ...