Labels – Am I going mad?

[Peter]

OL2003 XPpro (sp2)

In the Calender I have renamed 4 of the 10 labels available.

Now, if I view the calendar in a table view, for example Active
Appointments, and then customise that view to include the Label field I see a
column containing the labels as expected – that is the 6 inbuilt labels and
the 4 that I renamed. However, if now change the grouping of that view from
the default (which, if I remember right, was “Recurrenceâ€) to †Label†then
that grouping uses the 10 inbuilt label names and not my applied label names.

Futher, in Advanced Find on the Advanced tab I can enter “Label†in the
field and set the condition to “equals†then the drop down box to select a
value only offers me the inbuilt labels.

Is this behaviour as is should be or am I missing something? Would I be
better using Categories rather than labels to classify my appointments and if
so can these be colour coded.

Many thanks and apologies for such a long question.

Peter

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You're not missing anything. You have accurately described limitations of the calendar color labels feature that are resolved in Outlook 2007, which combines the calendar labels with categories to give you colored categories.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Peter]

Okay. Thanks for the quick reply.

Peter

You're not missing anything. You have accurately described limitations of the calendar color labels feature that are resolved in Outlook 2007, which combines the calendar labels with categories to give you colored categories.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers