How can I delete a category from JOURNAL?

[Robert L Beckert]

I've tried to delete a category from JOURNAL but have
been unsuccessful. I've tried right-clicking the category
and selecting "DELETE" and get a notice saying "This
action will apply to all items in the selected group."
and then click "OK" and nothing happens. I've also
clicked "DELETE" from "VIEW" on the Menu Toolbar with the
same results.

I have deleted the category from the Master Category List.

How can I delete a category from JOURNAL?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You don't "delete" a category. YOu remove the category from the items that
are marked with it. Right-click the items, choose Categories and remove the
category.

 

[Robert L Beckert]

Thanks Sue.

I did as you described and, of course, it worked.

I'm moving from Lotus Organizer and trying to find the
equivilant functions that were in Organizer. I really
miss some of the functions I was able to perform. For
instance, in "Calls" (the Organizer equivilant
to "Journal") I could right click on a "call" ("item")
and choose "follow up..." and a duplicate of the "call"
including contact and message was generated with a
current date and time. From there I could dial the
contact, change the contact, message or whatever and the
new "call" was linked to the original. It was great for
linking calls and conversations to the same issue.

Thanks for the help.

Bob.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Functionality to create new items like that are relatively easy to add to
Outlook with a little VBA macro coding, one of the things that distinguishes
Outlook from Organizer, IMO. In terms of linking, the only explicit linking
that Outlook provides is through linked contacts. You can't link a journal
item to a journal item directly. What you can do is use categories to create
implicit linkages that can even span folders.

 

[Robert L Beckert]

Thanks Sue.

I've been sorting on "subject field only" after
identifying the conversations with a unique description.
I've considered your suggestion about "Categoies". Either
way, I consider Org.'s function eaisier and more elegant.
Especially to start a new item (call) from a previous one.

Thanks again.