Does anyone know if I can use different categories with different.

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HogeyMama

I use Outlook 2003 at Home for both my personal email and also accessing my
work Microsoft Exchange email from home.

I use Categories extensively, but would like different categories for my
personal email from the ones I use for my work email.

Does anyone know how I can set up different and completely categories for
each email box?

I am not a dunce when it comes to PC's, but can't find the answer to this.
I suspect there isn't one.

Regards

Hogey
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

HogeyMama said:
I use Outlook 2003 at Home for both my personal email and also
accessing my work Microsoft Exchange email from home.

I use Categories extensively, but would like different categories for
my personal email from the ones I use for my work email.

Does anyone know how I can set up different and completely categories
for each email box?

I am not a dunce when it comes to PC's, but can't find the answer to
this. I suspect there isn't one.

Regards

Hogey
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If you use two separate Outlook profiles - one for home, one for work - I
believe they will have their own master category lists.
 
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neo [mvp outlook]

Howdy Lanwench,

Has to be different user profiles at the operating system level since the
master categories is not part of the registry keys that compose the mail
profile.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
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HogeyMama

I do use separate profiles for Home and Work and they are called different
names. Outlook prompts me when I start it up as to which email profile I
want to use. My work profile uses Exchange. When I added some categories
when using my work profile recently, they are now showing in my Home profile,
and if I delete them they also disappear from my work email too. Do you know
what the file extenstion of the categories file is? Perhaps I could create a
duplicate or something.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

neo said:
Howdy Lanwench,

Has to be different user profiles at the operating system level since
the master categories is not part of the registry keys that compose
the mail profile.
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Ah....thanks for the correction. I admit I haven't actually tried this
myself. :)
And Happy New Year to you, Neo!
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
If you use two separate Outlook profiles - one for home, one for
work - I believe they will have their own master category lists.
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

HogeyMama said:
I do use separate profiles for Home and Work and they are called
different names. Outlook prompts me when I start it up as to which
email profile I want to use. My work profile uses Exchange. When I
added some categories when using my work profile recently, they are
now showing in my Home profile, and if I delete them they also
disappear from my work email too. Do you know what the file
extenstion of the categories file is? Perhaps I could create a
duplicate or something.
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I was mistaken in my assumption (see Neo's reply to me). You'd need to use
different user accounts in Windows.
Note that the master categories list doesn't really matter - you can always
just type in the category you wish in the field in any item and it will
stick, regardless of what's in the master list.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

No file is involved. As Neo pointed out, the master category list is stored
in the registry as part of your Windows user profile, not your Outlook mail
profiles.

Nothing prevents you from using certain categories only for personal mail
and others for work mail.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Vanguard

HogeyMama said:
I use Outlook 2003 at Home for both my personal email and also
accessing my
work Microsoft Exchange email from home.

I use Categories extensively, but would like different categories for
my
personal email from the ones I use for my work email.

Does anyone know how I can set up different and completely categories
for
each email box?

I am not a dunce when it comes to PC's, but can't find the answer to
this.
I suspect there isn't one.

Regards

Hogey
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How are personal e-mails differentiated from work e-mails? Do they
arrive through different accounts, like different POP3 servers or one is
POP3 and the other is Exchange? If they come through different
accounts, use a rule to assign the category based through which account
the message was received.
 
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