2007-- word categories for contacts

[sramanon]

Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I have a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook 2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,

 

[sramanon]

Thank you Robert
I have a customised standard toolbar and customised menu bar, but no ribbon
visible for contacts. I can't see how to turn it on, and I think I'd like to
stay with the toolbars I have.

Please could you suggest a way that I can follow your instructions with the
toolbars I have? If they are not normal for Outlook 2007 perhaps they came
with the .pst file I pasted in to my Windows 7 harddrive from XP/Outlook2003.

BTW: I have a ribbon on all new messages in outlook.
I have the ribbon turned off on Word.

Thanks again
SR

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,



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Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I have
a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook
2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

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[sramanon]

Whoops, I see what you mean. I need to OPEN the contact right up, not work
from my contacts in "phone list" view! Sorry I missed a step. Cheers

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,



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Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I have
a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook
2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

.

 

[sramanon]

Robert, one question. I was used to filling a new contact folder in Outlook
2003, then in the folder/phone list view, I pasted the category in to the
whole column in one go. Can you see a way to do this in Outlook 2007? Thank
you SR

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,



-----

Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I have
a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook
2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, that method is gone.

I'm not sure if a category add-in will bring back a similar option which
will support your working method better.
Popular ones are;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/vboffice_categorymanager
and
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/veranosoft_categorize



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Robert, one question. I was used to filling a new contact folder in
Outlook
2003, then in the folder/phone list view, I pasted the category in to the
whole column in one go. Can you see a way to do this in Outlook 2007?
Thank
you SR

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,



-----

Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category
field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I
have
a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook
2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

.

 

[sramanon]

Thank you Roady! Will give these my best shot..

No, that method is gone.

I'm not sure if a category add-in will bring back a similar option which
will support your working method better.
Popular ones are;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/vboffice_categorymanager
and
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/veranosoft_categorize



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Robert, one question. I was used to filling a new contact folder in
Outlook
2003, then in the folder/phone list view, I pasted the category in to the
whole column in one go. Can you see a way to do this in Outlook 2007?
Thank
you SR

Open the Contact and from the Show group in the Ribbon select All Fields.
Set Select from to: Frequently-used fields.
Locate the Categories field and type your categories in the Value column.
You can separate categories with a ; or a ,



Please help me to discover how I can type in words into the category
field
when creating new contact entries in 2007, instead of the colours. [I
have
a
word based category system used for about 2000 contacts from Outloook
2003,
using 100 or more category words].
Thank you
SR

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