Misread imported contacts displayed by category

[srudder]

After importing contacts from an Access database I need to view them By
Category. If a contact has multiple categories (ex.: blue, auto,
radio) it will display that contact in ONE category titled "blue, auto,
radio". It should not do this - it should display in the three
separate categories.

If I open that contact, click the Categories button, click Master
Categories List, click OK, click OK, then Save - at that point Outlook
will display the contact in the three separate categories.

It doesn't matter whether or not my categories have been added to the
Master Category List.

Is there a way to get these contacts to display correctly without
having to re-save as mentioned above? I have about 800 contacts that I
imported and most of them have multiple categories.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In your Access database, change the data in the field that holds the category information so that it uses a semi-colon as the delimiter rather than a comma. After you import the data, each category should be handled separately, as you expect.


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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers