Master Category List

[Elvin Pena]

Greetings all; thanks in advance for the help!

I'm having a problem with one of my users. Here in the
office he's got a Win2K PC w/Office 2K installed. At
home he's running Win XP w/Office XP, which he uses to
connect to the corporate office via VPN.

He logged in from home the other day and created a ton of
entries into his Master Category List. When he came into
the office, he noticed that the entries were there, but
not part of his MCL. I did a little research and
discovered that both Office XP and 2K "store" that
information differently.

My question is, is there a way for me to devise something
where he'll be in perfect synch both from home and when
he's in the office? If I install Office XP on his PC
here in the office will that resolve the discrepancy?

Thanks again for any help you guys can offer me with this
issue.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The Master Category List is merely a convenience to the user, a list of categories, stored in the Windows registry from which the user can select. The Categories field on Outlook items is in no way tied to this list. Outlook items may contain categories that are either on or off the list.

Since the MCL is in the registry, to maintain the same list on two different machines, you'd need to update the registry (in other words, not Outlook). See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.htm for more information and possible solutions.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers