Does anyone know of a way to limit the number of categories that can be
applied to any specific task/appointment/e-mail in Outlook 2007?
Specifically, I am hoping to be able to limit these items to one category. I
think can be useful to have multiple categories in some instances, but I
would like to be able to easily change a task's category by clicking on a new
category, rather than having to click the new category and then unclick the
old category. This can be very confusing, because I group my items by
category, an when they are grouped this way, the "Category" column only shows
the single category of the current group, rather than showing all the
categories of the item. So if I forget to uncheck the old category, the item
will show up multiple times in the list. I am hoping I can make these work
in a similar way to the colored flags for e-mail in Outlook 2003.

Categories are multi-valued fields by design. If you want to change their
properties programmatically, you may do better to ask the programming types
in their newsgroup than asking here - depends who's looking here today.

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Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant www.pragmatix.com.au
My suggested settings for Outlook 2003 are FREE on my website.

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"pdi805" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a way to limit the number of categories that can be
> applied to any specific task/appointment/e-mail in Outlook 2007?
> Specifically, I am hoping to be able to limit these items to one category.
> I
> think can be useful to have multiple categories in some instances, but I
> would like to be able to easily change a task's category by clicking on a
> new
> category, rather than having to click the new category and then unclick
> the
> old category. This can be very confusing, because I group my items by
> category, an when they are grouped this way, the "Category" column only
> shows
> the single category of the current group, rather than showing all the
> categories of the item. So if I forget to uncheck the old category, the
> item
> will show up multiple times in the list. I am hoping I can make these
> work
> in a similar way to the colored flags for e-mail in Outlook 2003.

As Judy mentioned, you can limit that only by coding your own solution.

You might try Category Manager (please see the link in my signature for
details and a download): You can have the side-bar with categories always
visible, with that you can easily see how many and what categories are
assigned to the selected item(s). And removing or assigning new categories
goes much faster than without the tool.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool:
<http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>


Am Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:20:00 -0700 schrieb pdi805:

> Does anyone know of a way to limit the number of categories that can be
> applied to any specific task/appointment/e-mail in Outlook 2007?
> Specifically, I am hoping to be able to limit these items to one category.
I
> think can be useful to have multiple categories in some instances, but I
> would like to be able to easily change a task's category by clicking on a
new
> category, rather than having to click the new category and then unclick
the
> old category. This can be very confusing, because I group my items by
> category, an when they are grouped this way, the "Category" column only
shows
> the single category of the current group, rather than showing all the
> categories of the item. So if I forget to uncheck the old category, the
item
> will show up multiple times in the list. I am hoping I can make these
work
> in a similar way to the colored flags for e-mail in Outlook 2003.