Contact Categories with Outlook 2003 (in french)

[Loupero]

Hello,

I used to have Outlook 2000 (in french) and i just installed Outlook
2003 (also in french).

I use the categories to sort my contacts and am now faced with a small
problem that is quite frustrating:

With 2000 I could enter in the categories field: "client; friend;
Smith, John"
This would create 3 categories : "client" "friend" and "Smith, John".
This is perfect since this is what we use to assign a contact to an
employee.

However, with 2003, if I enter the same exact information, Outlook will
create 4 categories instead of 3. It will read the comma as a list
separator no matter what character is indicated in the control panel
(regional settings/list separator).

Since this is the standard we have been using for quite a while now, I
wonder how we could solve the problem to prevent Outlook from reading a
comma as a list separator and then creating another category.

I have yet to test this on Outlook 2003, but will be doing so shortly.

If anyone has any information, I would be truly grateful.

thx!

Louis-Philippe

 

[Loupero]

Called Microsoft Support, and this is a bug.

Outlook 2003 cannot support commas in a category; it will replace them
with semi-colons, thus dividing your category.

MS suggested I mention this for the next Office version... obviously,
this will not resolve my issue...

just thought I'd let you all know.

LP