Categories in a shared folder...

[Guest]

Hi
I have been tasked with creatin a contacts folder for the organisation so
all contacts are centrally held and can be used for e-mailing mailmerge etc.
I am creating a copy of a contacts folder then getting server admin to put
this on our public folders server.
However the contacts need to to have categories unique to us. So I need to
create the new categories and add them.
What I need to know is, will these categories appear by default for the
users when they want to filter etc. or will theu need to replicate the
categories on their computers?
Help appreciated!
Using Outlook 2003 on an exchange server,

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The "master category list" is local to each user, but any user can type in any category. For your scenario, you may want to use a custom form that requires a category choice from a predetermined list. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/reqcat.htm for an example.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers