Hi,

When creating a new appointment there is a Contents and Categories option in
the lower part of the Appointment window. What is the purpose of these as I
can't see how they are benficial?

Many thanks,

Simon.

It's actually Contacts and Categories.

Categories are used to enable you to "label" by Category then Group, filter,
Search and run Rules etc all based on Category.

There are hundreds of ways people use Categories. For example if you
Categorise meetings, you could make a filtered view of just meetings in that
Category.

Try searching these Newsgroups or just Googling and you'll find a lot of
information. There's a few ideas here too:
http://judygleeson.com/categories.aspx

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia


"SiH23" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> When creating a new appointment there is a Contents and Categories option
> in
> the lower part of the Appointment window. What is the purpose of these as
> I
> can't see how they are benficial?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Simon.
>
>
>
>

"SiH23" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When creating a new appointment there is a Contents and Categories option
> in
> the lower part of the Appointment window. What is the purpose of these as
> I
> can't see how they are benficial?


Categories? Well, you can set up... well... categories. So you can
categorize your meetings, and build filters around them.

Like, say you have a project called Doodad. Any meeting you set up
surrounding that project, you could put a category of Doodad. Then, you
could build a filter to only show meetings surrounding that project.

The other one... Contacts? It would put things into the links part of the
contact, so that you could see the appointments involving that person, maybe
it was *about* them, so they weren't actually invited, and is useful for
reporting.
--
f.h.