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
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 |
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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.