Group Contacts by Category You can use categories in Microsoft Office Outlook to add criteria and areas of interest to your contacts. Then when you have a specific announcement to make, you can get the right information to the right people quickly. Here's how: 1. Open each contact in Outlook. 2. Click the Categorize list. If the category you want isn't in the list, click All Categories, and then click New to create a new category. 3. To group your contacts by category, click View, point to Current View, and then click By Category. Note that you can't sort by category, because in a single category field, there may be several entries separated by semicolons; if you assign more than one category to a contact, that contact will be listed under multiple categories. 4. Select the icon at the top of a category, and double-click it to collapse the group. 5. Select the icon again, and then click New Message to Contact to send your e-mail message to everyone in that category.
Be careful when working in the Category view. If you delete a contact under one category, you're deleting the contact from your address book completely. Instead, do the following: 1. Right-click the contact, and point to Categorize. 2. Click a selected category to clear it, or click Clear All Categories to remove all categories from the contact.
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