Auto Assign a Category to a Calendar Item?

[Guest]

Was trying to find out if someone had a macro or could walk me through making
one that would allow me to auto-assign a category based upon specific text in
the subject of an calendar entry? I know about "Automatic Formatting" but it
only assigns a "color" not a category?

Thanks!

James Dasher

 

[Guest]

Forgot to mention that I am using Outlook 2007, though I think that is the
only version with this feature anyway?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

autoformatting assigns a color category, but its view based, not permanently
part of the appointment. See outlookcode.com for code samples.

 

[Guest]

I know that autoformatting is view based, and not part of the appointment on
the calendar. What I want to be able to do is create an appointment that say
starts with "IMP:" and have a macro or rule or something read that and know
to add that appointment to the "Important" category. I have several like
that...so I want to be able to define categories based upon the intro "code"
in the name of an appointment and get the category of the appointment set, so
that if I view "By Category" it is in the appropriate list.

James

P.S. I've been to OutlookCode.com but all I see are examples for 2003 and
lower, I believe that 2007 changed how categories work?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Actually, OL 07 didn't change how categories work. It added colors and
changed where they're stored, that's it. Additionally, now you can access
the Master Category List via the object model.

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Am Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:10:00 -0700 schrieb James Dasher: