Group your contacts by category. Select all in the category you want to
change, right click, choose Categories, and make the change in that dialog.

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> Does anyone know how i can change the name of some existing custom-named
> categories that already have hundreds of contacts assigned to?
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> Nathan