View Options for Contacts with Multiple Categories

[DJ]

Hello all,

I use multiple categories for my Outlook clients, and am familiar with
filtering the contacts folder view to have Outlook only present the
contact items that have certain categories assigned. When I group by
category, every used combination of the categories becomes it's own
grouping. Is there a way to have one group for each category, and if
a contact has more then one category assigned, for that contact to
appear in multiple groups?

DJ

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook]

It does work that way. If a Contact is in 2 Categories, it will appear
twice in By Category View - under the heading for both Categories.


Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
Canberra, Australia

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[DJ]

So I'm not going crazy. I thought it used to be that way, but I
assure you it's not now. Do you know of any way to toggle back and
forth between the two described views? It's Outlook 2003, BTW.

DJ

 

[Judy Gleeson, MVP Outlook]

I think you'll find postings here about resetting views - yours sounds
broken to me.

Or make a new one yourself and see if that works normally.

Just drag Categories header into the Group By Box in Simple List view.

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Judy Gleeson, MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

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