How to "mass" change Outlook Contacts categories

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Robert Judge - 28 Aug 2005 22:09 GMT

I have assigned a custom category to about 500 Contacts in Outlook 2003. I
now want to delete the category designation, so that each Contact will then
have a category of "none". How can I accomplish this? I will appreciate
advice.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Aug 2005 22:15 GMT

Select all the items you want to change, right-click, choose Categories and delete the desired category.

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>I have assigned a custom category to about 500 Contacts in Outlook 2003. I
> now want to delete the category designation, so that each Contact will then
> have a category of "none". How can I accomplish this? I will appreciate
> advice.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 29 Aug 2005 00:05 GMT

Export to Excel (if it supports the export of your custom category) and
delete the column or empty it.

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After furious head scratching, Robert Judge asked:

| I have assigned a custom category to about 500 Contacts in Outlook
| 2003. I now want to delete the category designation, so that each
| Contact will then have a category of "none". How can I accomplish
| this? I will appreciate advice.

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