Mail Categories

[Guest]

In Outlook 2003, if you assign a category to a contact, shouldn't the
category register when you receive an email from a contact? The reason I ask
is I want all the email messages from certain categories to be display as a
certain color, but it seems you have to assign a category to the actual email
message. Any advice?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP OneNote]

Not sure what you mean by "category" but what you want is Automatic
Formatting. You can have Outlook display messages from different senders in
different colors.


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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you need to assign a category using rules - the contacts category is used on
ly in the contacts folder.

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[Brian Tillman]

In Outlook 2003, if you assign a category to a contact, shouldn't the
category register when you receive an email from a contact? The
reason I ask is I want all the email messages from certain categories
to be display as a certain color, but it seems you have to assign a
category to the actual email message. Any advice?

See if something here helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/coloremail.htm and
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/coloremailadvanced.htm

 

[Guest]

The problem is you can only make 20 rules. I was trying to get around that
limitation.

you need to assign a category using rules - the contacts category is used on
ly in the contacts folder.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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In Outlook 2003, if you assign a category to a contact, shouldn't the
category register when you receive an email from a contact? The reason I
ask
is I want all the email messages from certain categories to be display as
a
certain color, but it seems you have to assign a category to the actual
email
message. Any advice?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP OneNote]

The limit on rules relates to size, not number. You can have as many rules
as you want as long as the total size is under 32K. Either try to limit
your categories or use Automatic Formatting to assign at least some of the
colors without needing a rule.


--
Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Stockholm Consulting Group/KSG
http://www.scgab.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/computers/onenotefaq.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!

The problem is you can only make 20 rules. I was trying to get around
that
limitation.

you need to assign a category using rules - the contacts category is used
on
ly in the contacts folder.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

In Outlook 2003, if you assign a category to a contact, shouldn't the
category register when you receive an email from a contact? The reason
I
ask
is I want all the email messages from certain categories to be display
as
a
certain color, but it seems you have to assign a category to the actual
email
message. Any advice?