Upgraded from 2003 to 2007

[pspannuth]

I just upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007. I use Outlook extensively.
One thing I liked about 2003 is that at the bottom of the window in a contact
or calendar event, there was a stripe that you could add a contact or a
category to the contact or calendar event. I have looked through help and
have not been able to determine how to do a couple of things. One, is with a
contact open, in 2003 I could go to the "Actions" drop down menu and select
"New Appointment" with Contact" and it would open a calendar event and
automatically put a link to the contact in that bottom stripe. Then when I
would open the calendar event I could double click on the contact name and it
would immediately open the contact. I did find out how to add the contact in
the notes field, but I would have to make more steps to get this
accomplished. I use my contacts and calendar extensively and I want to be
able to see the link to the contact in my calendar event. Is there a way to
do this?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Tools=>options->contact options->show contact linking...

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After furious head scratching, pspannuth asked:

| I just upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007. I use Outlook
| extensively. One thing I liked about 2003 is that at the bottom of
| the window in a contact or calendar event, there was a stripe that
| you could add a contact or a category to the contact or calendar
| event. I have looked through help and have not been able to
| determine how to do a couple of things. One, is with a contact open,
| in 2003 I could go to the "Actions" drop down menu and select "New
| Appointment" with Contact" and it would open a calendar event and
| automatically put a link to the contact in that bottom stripe. Then
| when I would open the calendar event I could double click on the
| contact name and it would immediately open the contact. I did find
| out how to add the contact in the notes field, but I would have to
| make more steps to get this accomplished. I use my contacts and
| calendar extensively and I want to be able to see the link to the
| contact in my calendar event. Is there a way to do this?

 

[pspannuth]

Thank you Milly!!!!!

 

[pspannuth]

I now see the contact links. Now I have one more question. How do I get the
category to show on the bottom stripe? I see the category button on the
ribbon, but when I click on that it does not show the categories that I have
established in my public contacts on the Microsoft Exchange server. It only
shows the categories that I have in my private contacts. Your help is
appreciated!