Calendar Automatic Formatting and To-Do Bar

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Request: Ability for Automatic Formatting Rules in a Calendar to be reflected
on the To-Do Bar.

Here are the current steps which do not work:
This is what I did:

1) Swtiched to Calendar
2) View pulldown > Current View > Day/Week/Month
3) Right-clicked on the calendar background and chose "Automatic
Formatting..."
4) Clicked "Add" button and called it "Meetings"
5) Set a Color (i.e. Blue)
6) Clicked "Add" button and called it "Important Meetings"
7) Set a Color (i.e. Red)
8) Clicked "Condition..." and added specific people in the Attendees field.
9) Clicked "OK"

Result: My appointments colored per my settings--blue and red.

Problem: The color coding is not refleced in the To-Do Bar.


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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Since I use categories extensively and those colors DO carry over to the To-Do bar, I have never seen this problem. However, I created a couple of items and used automatic formatting and do see the problem. I believe it stems from AF using Views and Views do not carry over to other parts of Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, Chris asked:

| Request: Ability for Automatic Formatting Rules in a Calendar to be
| reflected on the To-Do Bar.
|
| Here are the current steps which do not work:
| This is what I did:
|
| 1) Swtiched to Calendar
| 2) View pulldown > Current View > Day/Week/Month
| 3) Right-clicked on the calendar background and chose "Automatic
| Formatting..."
| 4) Clicked "Add" button and called it "Meetings"
| 5) Set a Color (i.e. Blue)
| 6) Clicked "Add" button and called it "Important Meetings"
| 7) Set a Color (i.e. Red)
| 8) Clicked "Condition..." and added specific people in the Attendees
| field. 9) Clicked "OK"
|
| Result: My appointments colored per my settings--blue and red.
|
| Problem: The color coding is not refleced in the To-Do Bar.
|
|
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| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
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| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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| http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b9e82136d&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general