Filtering views by category

[Marilyn Simmons]

In Contacts I'm trying to create views of contacts in specific categories.
However, for contacts that belong in multiple categories, all of the
categories show, even the ones excluded by the filter. Is there a way to
exclude these duplicates/unrequested categories.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

A view grouped by category will show all the categories applied to all the items that meet the current filter restrictions. In other words, if you have a filter for items with the Important category and an item has both Important and Hot as categories, it will show under groups for Important and Hot. That's simply the way grouping works.

If you are filtering for only a single category, there's no need to use a grouped view.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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