In Outlook 2003 What is a category?

It is a field in Outlook that can be used to Group items. Any Outlook items.

For example you can Categorise Tasks and then see all Tasks about a certain
project by grouping by Category. Contacts can be grouped by Category, then
you can email an entire Category or email merge to them.

Rules can be used to Categorise incoming emails as well. You can show the
Category column in the Inbox too.

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook

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"Jonathon Askew" <Jonathon (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:69EAA152-3AAC-4BC0-8659-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In Outlook 2003 What is a category?

Another way to look at it: If you hang on sites like flickr and del.icio.us, a category is like a tag. It helps you organize your content.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Jonathon Askew" <Jonathon (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:69EAA152-3AAC-4BC0-8659-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In Outlook 2003 What is a category?

In message <#(E-Mail Removed)> "Sue Mosher
[MVP-Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Another way to look at it: If you hang on sites like flickr and del.icio.us, a category is like a tag. It helps you organize your content.

To add to this a little, the important thing to know about categories is
that you can have more then one on an item.

This adds an incredible amount of power and flexibility.

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"Jonathon Askew" wrote:

> In Outlook 2003 What is a category?

Thank you For your Assistance.

Now I have another question: (I Apologize I have MS Outlook 2007 not 2003)
In outlook when I open my messages there is an tool on my taskbar called
"Create Rules". I'm assuming it means that you can assign each e-mail to the
folder you want it to go to when you recieve it. now here's my question: Why
is it greyed out in my outlook why can't i access it?