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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Calendaring / June 2005Automatic formatting stops in Outlook 2002!
I have been using Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2002 to impose a Label color based on the Category assigned to a problem. I had 10 formats working for months, but when I added the eleventh today, suddenly MOST, but not all, of my previously variously-colored appts have gone gray. I cannot see what is common to the few that have retained color: they have different categories, were entered at different times, etc. Any idea what's going on? Remember, this is Outlook 2002, SP 3. Not on a network, not using Exchange. Thanks. was the 11th rule coloring them gray?  SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/ >I have been using Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2002 to impose a Label > color based on the Category assigned to a problem. I had 10 formats [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks. Oh, clever lady! However, the mystery deepens: No, my 11th rule was NOT to color them gray. But I do have a rule, one of the earliest I made, that does. "Tentative" category => gray. Soooo, I tried turning off the Tentative rule...and mysteriously, everything else (which never had been given the Tentative category) reverted to its proper coloring. Tentatives, of course, are now white, ie no color. Turn Tentative back on, and we are back to gray for everything. As my kids would IM -- WT... One thing solved -- those few appts that retain color do so because I set them up with a Label, before I discovered Automatic Formatting. Adding the eleventh rule just seems to break all the others. Curiouser and curiouser... > was the 11th rule coloring them gray? > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > Thanks. Aha. I did a little more playing around, and either the settings got corrupted (I also ran scanpst) or in the course of setting up #11, I modified the "Tentative category" rule to remove the condition that category = Tentative...so everything WOULD be gray, unless Labeled. I deleted and reentered the Tentative rule, and all seems to be back to normal. Insert blushing emoticon here. Thanks for jogging my troubleshooting. > Oh, clever lady! However, the mystery deepens: > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > > > > > Thanks.
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