Outlook Best Practices: Categories

re: Outlook Best Practices: Categories

laursaurus — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:12:24 GMT

OMG!

I'm not sure how I did it, but it's working now!

I think I clicked the "View" tab, then clicked "categories" on the ribbon.

When I went back to the "Home" tab, there it was.

Right-clicking on the Category icon on the message works now too!!!

YAY!!!

re: Outlook Best Practices: Categories

laursaurus — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:48 GMT

I love this series.

But my Outlook 2010 won't let me assign categories when I right-click. 2007 on my work computer works just like the demo in the video.

I tried customizing the tool bar and custom actions. But the category icon is grayed out.

What do I do to use this great organization system on the version of Outlook I forked out the $ for??

Sigh! I found someone else asking this in the forums. But the answers were very vague. The "help" doesn't address this either :(

re: Outlook Best Practices: Categories

ShelLuser — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:35:23 GMT

Interesting topic and while I agree with the whole category issue (it can make your live easier) there is one thing which the video isn't fully correct about. Harry (or is it Doug ? ;-)) could also utilize /rules/ which could have setup the categories for him. Fully automated.

And of course much easier too. I use this quite heavily myself to keep my personal messages and "identities" sorted out.

re: Outlook Best Practices: Categories

Standards — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:51:34 GMT

You talk about standards, Outlook is being dropped because it can't support

basic HTML.

Clients sending emails from an outlook client are rendered differently on

other email clients, this makes it completely useless, why did you change

this in outlook 2007 not realising you should have changed it back?

re: Outlook Best Practices: Categories

aldousr — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:30:33 GMT

Am I the only one who finds this trend toward videos annoying? As I work in a large open plan office I don't wish to broadcast the video to all those around me or be seen to be watching videos when I should be working, also some videos which seem to have been hosted on YouTube or similar service aren't even available due to our firewall settings. As a result I feel I am missing out on a number of interesting posts/articles.

Surely I am not alone in this?