'Free form' Categories

[Rick]

Our office has a public folder on exchange 2003 that contains a shared tasks
list. In Outlook 2003, when adding a task we could enter a category "on the
fly" which worked perfectly for us. I have recently upgraded to Outlook 2007
and although I can see the categories of all the existing public folder
tasks, I can't enter or amend any text in the category column when I add or
amend a task. Do I have to create a category each time ? (we could have
hundreds of categories). Also it seems that it will only show you 15
categories max, this means I have to select "All categories" each time ?

Is there a way to have the categories work the way they used to in OL 2003 ?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Sounds like you had "allow in-cell editing" enabled for your view. You can
enable it in "Other settings" for your view.

 

[Rick]

Hi Roady,

Thanks for the suggestion, but "Allow in-cell editing" is turned on. I can
edit all other columns in the view, but in OL 2007, the Categories column is
locked and I cannot edit it directly.