Outlook categorization issues

[Rich]

All of the tasks I've edited today are being incorrectly categorized.
Although they have categories assigned to them, when I try to group my tasks
by categories, they all show up as uncategorized.

I make very extensive use of categories to help me group tasks according to
specific types of work that I do, so this presents a very serious problem for
me.

I've tried closing and re-starting Outlook and rebooting Windows several
times, but nothing seems to help.

Please help!

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

If you right click one item, and click Categories, do you see the assigned
category? What version of Outlook?

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: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
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Am Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:31:02 -0800 schrieb Rich:

 

[Rich]

Thanks Michael.

I am using Office 2007 on a Win XP box with SP2. I have found a work around
but dont now how long this will last though.

Most (but not all) of my categories contain either one or two "_"
(underscore) characters for sorting purposes. On a whim, I've re-named all of
my categories to include either one or two "~" (tilde) characters instead.
Then, I went through all of my tasks that were not correctly categorized and
re-categorized them appropriately.

This appears to be working for now. Of course, the old underscore characters
worked for a while too, so I don't know if I've fixed anything or just found
a workaround for a few days.

Like I said, I don't think I've "solved" any problems, but the issue may
have something to do with using special (non-alphanumeric) characters in the
task names.

Incidentally, I created a new category with the underscores in the front,
and assigned a task to that category and it worked just fine now.

Is this possibly a compatibility issue with Office 2003 and Office 2007?

Thanks

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

I don't think so.

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: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
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Am Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:37:00 -0800 schrieb Rich:

 

[Rich]

Hello Michael,
Now thier is something really weird happening with this.

Just when I was ready to brush this off as nothing but a fluke…it’s
happening again.

I’ve hardly opened any tasks today in Outlook, but I have hit “snooze†on
several reminders. Every task that has been saved or “snoozed†today is now
showing up without a category. Although I can open the task and see what
category it is in, in the taskpad or in my to-do list (grouped by category),
they are all showing up as “none.†If I right-click on the task and select
“Categorize,†the category assigned to the task does not appear highlighted
as it should. But if I open the task, the correct category is displayed. And,
with the task open, if I select the “Categorize†drop-down, the correct
category appears. But it just won’t group by category (once again).

Do you have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Rich, it seems that the views are corrupt. Maybe it helps if you start
Outlook with the switch /cleanviews.

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Am Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:35:01 -0800 schrieb Rich: