Have you tried the View | Expand/Collapse Groups | Collapse All Groups command? Another solution, if you need to view the same category often, is to create a new named view filtered to show only that category.

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> It is very inconvenient to go to category and have to scroll through hundreds
> of names to get to the category you want. It will remember until a search is
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