Email categories troubleshooting Outlook 2007

[KFritz]

Categories function not working in Outlook 2007 email. Go through the steps
to add to Customize Current View. It allows me to "Add" categories but it
never shows up. Next time I open the "Fields" it doesn't show as added.
Categories "icon"/option doesn't appear when I right click on a message.
Very frustrating. Used to using this function at work and in 2003. Help!
Please.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

You shouldn't need to add it to the current view - Categories appear by
default (the empty square box) in OL2007.

Are you trying to add NEW categories or just add existing categories to
a messages?

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
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Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[KFritz]

That's just it. It's supposed to be there -- the "empty square box" which I
am familiar with from Outlook 2007 at work and on earlier versions of Outlook
-- but it isn't on my Outlook 2007 at home. It appears as an available field
in the "Customize Current View" section and I can ostensibly "add" the
categories field but it never takes. I save the current view change the
category field doesn't appear and when I go back to re-customize the e-mail
view fields, "categories" is back in the left column and was never added from
the previous attempt to do so.

I'm primarily looking for it to work/appear in the e-mail sections of
Outlook more so than Calendar, etc. Very frustrating. I VERY MUCH
appreciate you getting back to me. Thanks.