After you upgrade to Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010, you need to convert categories to color categories.
Do this by right clicking on the top level folder (where Outlook Today is) and choose Properties (Data File Properties in Outlook 2010).
Then click the button to upgrade to color categories. This will convert the categories and add any not already on your master color category list, to it.
To share color categories with other users, see the Tools below.
Tools in the Spotlight
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Tools
Categories Administrator was specifically designed for users to easily administer Master and Individual Contact Categories in Outlook/Exchange/BCM. Add, rename, merge, remove, delete, import, and create categories in Outlook/Exchange/BCM. Create a query and then map it to the selected contacts. | |
Category Importer for Outlook, exports your Master Category List (MCL) to a text file that you can easily import on another PC. Free | |
Category Manager allows sharing of color categories; it adds a sidebar to the folder view as well as opened items, in which you can group your categories and assign them lightning fast; and it adds a reminder, which optionally prompts you if you forget to assign a category. Version 3.0.4 | |
CodeTwo CatMan allows sharing of Outlook categories with other users on the local network. Centralized management using a shared configuration file. Version 3.0.1 | |
Exchange Category Manager is a plug-in for Exchange server 2010. Without any interaction to the user's pc or Outlook it enables you to manage the Outlook categories and colors that are available to the users in Outlook 2007 and higher. You can define an unlimited number of groups with different users. Each group can have it's own set of categories and colors that the user can choose from. Per user group you can either add categories to the existing list that a user has in Outlook or replace everything with the predefined list. As it integrates with Exchange server directly the users do not have to do or install anything, their category list is simply automatically managed. |
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Last reviewed on Aug 18, 2011
when i open my outlook contacts and try to open the contact category that i had modified, sometimes i only see th default categories that came with the software, and not the ones that I added on
this started when I tried synchronizing outlook to gmail, so I can synch it with my android
please advise
What version of Outlook and are all updates installed? This sounds similar to a problem introduced into Outlook 2007 by an update and fixed bu a later one. It’s possible another update broke it.