What you most likely are describing is a custom form, such as the sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/reqcat.htm. It is not a built-in feature.

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"ash_liz" wrote in message ...
I have a list we have created describing different types of contacts so that
contacts can be sorted or listed by their categorized type (this contact is
an engineer; this one is a state agency; etc.). It is a fairly long list and
pretty specific to our firm.

The only way I can see to assign a category to a contact is with the new
"Color Categories," and these are actually showing category types that I have
assigned for my own personal use in my calendar (green = birthday; purple =
holiday, etc.).

Apparently, in the previous version of Outlook, there was a way to create
the type of contact categorization list that I described above, so that
anyone who accesses the company's public contacts folder on the network to
add a new contact can select from the list of categories and apply
appropriate ones to that new contact.

I have been searching Help in Outlook 2007, and everything I see about this
type of feature seems to refer to the Business Contact Manager application,
which we do not have.

Thank you.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can easily create custom categories in any version of Outlook. What you
mean by "custom category list" is anyone's guess. Clarify what you mean so
we don't have to try to guess.
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"ash_liz" wrote in message
...
Can I create a custom category list to be used for contacts in the
company's
public contacts folder - without having Business Contact Manager?