Why won't Outlook 2003 let me sort my Contacts by "Category"

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Alan Truism

It even has a "Category" current view which from what I can tell, is
absolutely worthless.
 
What happens when you try? Anything?

You can reset the view by clicking View, Arrange By, Current View, Define
Views. Select the By Category view and click the Reset button. It's possible
your view has just become corrupted.
 
Patricia said:
What happens when you try? Anything?

You can reset the view by clicking View, Arrange By, Current View, Define
Views. Select the By Category view and click the Reset button. It's possible
your view has just become corrupted.
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If I select the "category" option it just pulls the category column
over the left. It does not group the contacts by category, nor does it
allow me to sort by category.

If I try to sort by the category column I get a message that says "you
cannot sort by this field."

This happens for all of our users, not just me.
 
If I select the "category" option it just pulls the category column
over the left. It does not group the contacts by category, nor does it
allow me to sort by category.
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You can't sort by category because an item in Outlook can have multiple
categories. You can only group by category.

And why have you included the alt.religion.dake-bonoism newsgroup in this
post?
 
Brian said:
You can't sort by category because an item in Outlook can have multiple
categories. You can only group by category.
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So how do you group by category?
 
OK, so I figured it out.

When I select the "By Category" radio button under current view for
some reason it does not group the contacts by category. I was expecting
it to do that. All it does it rearrange the column order.

However if I go into the customize current view option, then select
group by category there it works. I don't understand why that isn't
enabled with the "by category" current view option but at least I can
go in and do it manually.

Thanks.
 
Alan Truism said:
When I select the "By Category" radio button under current view for
some reason it does not group the contacts by category. I was
expecting it to do that. All it does it rearrange the column order.

However if I go into the customize current view option, then select
group by category there it works. I don't understand why that isn't
enabled with the "by category" current view option but at least I can
go in and do it manually.
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View>Arrange By, selecting Show in Groups and Category groups by category.
The Show in Groups item will group by whatever other item you have checked
in that list.

Please remove the reference to alt.religion.dake-bonoism from the newsgroup
list when responding.
 
Brian said:
Please remove the reference to alt.religion.dake-bonoism from the newsgroup
list when responding.
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Sorry, but I cross post everything to alt.religion.dake-bonoism.
 
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Alan Truism said:
Sorry, but I cross post everything to alt.religion.dake-bonoism.
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<"follow-up to" corrected>

Hmmm. Well, a) I find that peculiar and b) I have a small suspcion that most
people in here don't sub to that group, and will get errors when they try to
respond. Don't you want to see replies?

Setting the follow-up to a group to which a lot of people will not have
access, is a silly way to post in an MS technical support newsgroup, if you
want to get help/replies. If you want to see the replies to your posts, read
them in the appropriate groups.
 
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