How to make 1 change to many contacts?

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I was making a "common change" to multiple contacts using the directions
provided by Microsoft's site. I sorted the contacts by category, selected
the grouping bar for the category I wanted to change, and dragged the
contacts to the category I wanted it to become. Outlook is supposed to
automatically apply the change to all of the items in the old category. It
gave the contacts 2 categories. I will still have to open 300 contacts
individually to get rid of the old category. Is there another way to make a
the same change to multiple contacts?
 
Veronica said:
I was making a "common change" to multiple contacts using the
directions provided by Microsoft's site. I sorted the contacts by
category, selected the grouping bar for the category I wanted to
change, and dragged the contacts to the category I wanted it to
become. Outlook is supposed to automatically apply the change to all
of the items in the old category. It gave the contacts 2 categories.
I will still have to open 300 contacts individually to get rid of the
old category. Is there another way to make a the same change to
multiple contacts?
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If you want to remove a category from all the contacts, select them all,
right-click, categories, and untick the "offending" category. Don't change
the greyed-out tickmarks next to the other categories, and it should be
fine.
 
You can add but not remove categories by dragging - select all of the items
in the old category and r-click, Categories and remove the check mark from
that category.

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