Change journal category name (repost)

[Paul]

I'm posting this again in case the first one was missed because of the
“re:” in the subject (even though it was started as a separate thread,
with the same name as an older thread that it continues). The subject
in both threads was “Change Journal Category name”.

The problem:

In Outlook 2003, I created a Category for Journal Entries called
"CatA". I would like to change the Category name to "CatB". I was
seeking a simple way to change all the Journal Entries falling under
"CatA" so that they now refer to "CatB"? Note that some Journal
Entries fall under more than one Category.

One response was to (quote):

...create and assign
an additional category named CatB. Then change your view so that it is
Grouped By category and then you can use drag and drop to assign the items
with CatA also the CatB category. If you move it to the "No Category" group
first, before moving it to the group CatB, CatA will be removed

Furthermore (in same thread):

dragging with the mouse can only add categories, you can't remove one
by

dragging the item to the None Categories group.


But once you have grouped by categories, you can easily select all of the
items of one category, right click, choose categorize, and then add and/or
remove categories. That won't affect categories, which are assigned to just
a few of the items

My experience with the procedure has been confusing (new thread with
same subject):

Grouped the journal
entries by category, but found them spread out over a timeline. Not
too sure how to select all the entries within a category; I'm
intending to apply this change over quite a number of entries over
the past year.

Also, I tried dragging one entry over to another category, but it
doesn't seem to drag.

Any suggestions? I'm using Outlook 2003.

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Paul, there's more than just a timeline view; switch to a table view that
lists all of the items grouped by category.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

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Am Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:14 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Paul:

 

[Paul]

That works awesomely! Thanks! Wish I had followed up sooner. Would
have saved endless amounts of buttonology.