I love the fact that Categories are colored, with so many colors to choose
from also! I have noticed that if I make a category with no color
association and have an item associated with that category and another
category that is colored, on the appointment (in day and week view) it puts a
red square on the category. Now, I played with it a bit and unassigned
categories and reassigned categories and it still seemed to do it most of the
time, except when I cleared all categories and saved & closed, then reopened,
selected the uncolored category and saved & closed, then reopened again and
once again selected the colored category in addition to the uncolored
category being selected and saved & closed. Weird!
Okay, another thing, I wanted certain appointments to be colored a certain
color even though I had different colored categories assigned to them for
filtering purposes. I noticed if I unchecked the color that I wanted to be
the color of the appointment and then rechecked it, it put it first in the
category list and made the appointment that color, most of the time, I did
have a couple issues with this. It would be good if you could have a color
or category priority option.
One more thing in regards to labels. I used labels in Outlook 2003 and when
it converted the labels over, it was kind of messy. I had some labels that
were sort of duplicates of categories because of filtering and
coloring/viewing purposes and synchronizing with my PDA, because labels
aren't offered on Pocket Outlook (another thing that would be a nice feature
- or at least have Pocket Outlook use color categories like 2007!) Anyway,
the labels aren't able to be modified, which is a mute point after it
migrating into 2007, but it is still a filter option. And it also went back
to default labels after I changed the labels on some appointments, hmmm.
Maybe you have could offer options to convert labels into categories, colors,
etc. instead of Outlook just choosing for you.
wisevans - 12 Jul 2006 23:00 GMT
I need to add on more thing here, this is obviously for Outlook 2007, and I
also just discovered that what I thought was a "fix" was not, it still shows
a red square as the second (supposedly uncolored) category on a colored
category appointment.
> I love the fact that Categories are colored, with so many colors to choose
> from also! I have noticed that if I make a category with no color
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