changing 'no category' category

[Guest]

I have about 800 records of my total which, for some reason, inherited the
'no category' category at some point. I also have ones which have no
category at all listed in the category field. This is something to do with
my blackberry.

The point is that the majority of these that have 'no category' category
also have another category name, which I want to keep. Is there any way for
me to mass delete the "no category", given that it does not show up in my
master list for outlook (which is why I am confused as to how it got there in
the first place)?

I initially thought grouping by categories and dragging the 'no category'
set into the 'none' (meaning there was no category text at all associated
with it) set, but that doesn't seem to take away the name 'no category'.

Help. Thx.

 

[Guest]

basic question, I guess, is how do you undo a category assignment for a
group. A find/replace of sorts, only within a filtered subset of the
contacts list.

Thx again.

 

[ProfDD]

There are previous posts on this, including recent ones. Can't find
them for you now. Procedure for changing categories would work for
removing a category.

 

[Guest]

I was unable to find them when I looked previously, so if you know some
keywords and can find the link, it'd help out. Thanks for the initial try.

 

[ProfDD]

Rename category

 

[Guest]

going back to my original frustration, this category (literally named "no
category") appeared in the list of choices for any contact that has it, but
it is not in the master category list (and says so next to itself in the
contact's dialogue for categories.

Any other ideas?

 

[Guest]

Try:
View contacts in "By category" view
Does the "no category" listing show up there?
If so, right click on the "no category" heading
Choose "categories" from the menu
Uncheck the "no categories" listing
Close - this might remove al the "no categories" lisitng from all contacts

 

[ProfDD]

Jack said what I was trying to say. "Rename" and "Category" are
keywords to find the previous threads that present a general method
that is closely related to the exact situation at hand.

 

[Guest]

ended up going a slightly different path (since I was not getting the "no
category" as an actual name in the category list). I took all the no
category ones, dragged them into a "test" category that I created in the
master list. That got rid of the "no category". Then I dragged out of test
into the categories for each of the entries (there were about 700 of them
that already had another category, so I just had to delete test from those
and they were left with the other of the two). And that was that. I think
that 'no category' somehow got created by my blackberry synch, but not sure,
and at this point, not worried about it.

Thx for the help to all.