That works awesomely! Thanks! Wish I had followed up sooner. Would
have saved endless amounts of buttonology.
On Jul 14, 3:02*pm, "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" <m...@mvps.org>
wrote:
> Paul, there's more than just a timeline view; switch to a table view that
> lists all of the items grouped by category.
>
> Am Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:14 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Paul:
> > I'm posting this again in case the first one was missed because of the
> > “re:” in the subject (even though it was started as a separate thread,
> > with the same name as an older thread that it continues). *The subject
> > in both threads was “Change Journal Category name”.
>
> > The problem:
>
> > In Outlook 2003, I created a Category for Journal Entries called
> > "CatA". *I would like to change the Category name to "CatB". *I was
> > seeking a simple way to change all the Journal Entries falling under
> > "CatA" so that they now refer to "CatB"? *Note that some Journal
> > Entries fall *under more than one Category.
>
> > One response was to (quote):
>
> >> ...create and assign
> >> an additional category named CatB. Then change your view so that it is
> >> Grouped By category and then you can use drag and drop to assign the
> items
> >> with CatA also the CatB category. If you move it to the "No Category"
> group
> >> first, before moving it to the group CatB, CatA will be removed
>
> > Furthermore (in same thread):
>
> > dragging with the mouse can only add categories, you can't remove one
> > by
> >> dragging the item to the None Categories group.
>
> >> But once you have grouped by categories, you can easily select all of the
> >> items of one category, right click, choose categorize, and then add
> and/or
> >> remove categories. That won't affect categories, which are assigned to
> just
> >> a few of the items
>
> > My experience with the procedure has been confusing (new thread with
> > same subject):
>
> >> Grouped the journal
> >> entries by category, but found them spread out over a timeline. *Not
> >> too sure how to select all the entries within a category; I'm
> >> intending to apply this change over quite a number of entries over
> >> the *past year.
>
> >> Also, I tried dragging one entry over to another category, but it
> >> doesn't seem to drag.
>
> > Any suggestions? *I'm using Outlook 2003.
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