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When sharing my Calendar, the events are not linked to the category list. Sharing my Calendar (Outlook from Microsoft 365, Exchange) with a my wife's account on a windows laptop, also using Microsoft 365 exchange. Microsoft 365 Home, Windows 10 x64 on both devices. The calendar is...

All of a sudden, some of my emails are being categorized incorrectly and automatically by outlook desktop. When I right click the email and choose "All Categories" I see the category checked, but it is not a category I created (see first photo). If I unclick the checkmark, and "OK", the email is...

I have been wanting to use Categories to identify my emails for my construction projects, I ran across this article Create a List of Color Categories to Merge or Restore which gave me the key to uploading all my project codes as categories. Thanks to you, I am all set up to start using my new...

Maybe I'm hallucinating, but for a brief period after a recent Outlook 2016 for Desktop update, it seems like I had more than 15 Categories to choose from when clicking on the Categorize ribbon button. I understand that I can click "All Categories," but I'm looking for a way for more of my...

Hi Diane, I'm trying to add use a macro that when pressed via a button on the ribbon will add a category to the new/outgoing email. If I start a new email the macro works fine to add the category but as soon as I hit send it seems to be removed and it goes without the category on. The reason...

Is there a way to sort Tasks by Category in a table view, but concatenate the Category if there is more than one? I have tried creating a custom field using [Category]&" "&[Category] but that doesn't show the second (or third or fourth, etc) category. This would be SUPER helpful if I could...

Hello, I am able to export Outlook Categories from one account in domain1.org, but when I import the same categories into a new account in domain2.org, the colors are not preserved and are assigned randomly. Is there any way to get the export to preserve the colors? Thanks,

I made a conditional formatting rule to change the font on messages that have any Category assigned. I set the query as "Categories" and "is not empty." Guess what? It applies the formatting to every single message. I troubleshot the issue by unchecking every single other rule and it still does...

Hi there, Since 2010, my workflow is based on the principle of Control Your Day. Main tools are categories and search folders. I have improved the process by adding my own VBAs to add next actions to the context folder. The last missing piece I can not get working is the ability to create a...

I am trying to set categories to outgoing email in Outlook 2016 based on certain combo box values from the end user. I am using the below code to add category to outgoing email within the Item send event. msg.Categories = msg.Categories & "," & EmailDetails.cmbresponsetype.Value & "-" &...

I have an interesting problem that I am really hoping someone has a good solution for. Context and issue: I am using Outlook 2016 Exchange I have access to a shared calendar (with editor rights). The owner of the shared calendar has most meetings color-coded using categories. I would like the...

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Category Color doesn't Display in Inbox Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Printing Calendars with Color Categories Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

I'm looking for discussions comparing Outlook 2013 (desktop) with Outlook 365/Outlook 2016. I can't tell if it's too soon to expect to see information on this, or if I'm missing something: There are a lot of websites that refer to Outlook.com, but I understand that is migrating to Outlook...

Hi I use multiple catergories on each task to define importance / urgency /project etc.etc. When I print a to do list for the day ( I know, uses trees, not the modern way, but that's the way I like it), I just want to print each task selected once. Whatever I do by way of filtering or...