1. Open a Contacts and click the Category button in the Ribbon. Or right
click the Contact and select Categories.
2. It's turned off by default in 2007

The setting is here: Tools |
options | contact options
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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"Mawakes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have switched from outlook 2003 to 2007 and want to assign a catagory to
>a
> contact and cant seem to be able to do it. Also when I schedule something
> in
> the calendar in 2003 I could link it to a contact and how do you do that
> in
> 2007?