It is a field in Outlook that can be used to Group items. Any Outlook items.

For example you can Categorise Tasks and then see all Tasks about a certain
project by grouping by Category. Contacts can be grouped by Category, then
you can email an entire Category or email merge to them.

Rules can be used to Categorise incoming emails as well. You can show the
Category column in the Inbox too.

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
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"Jonathon Askew" Jonathon wrote in message
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In Outlook 2003 What is a category?