Marti, you wrote on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:42:03 -0400:

Hi, Outlook 2003 w/all updates on XP with all updates.

I had to repair Office, unrelated to Outlook, and in the process lost
all my custom catagories in the Master Catagories list. I manually
added them all back in, so all is fine now - but is there a way to
back up the Master Catagories list? Or, is the list included in the
.PST file? If so, can I copy my .PST flies off to an external drive,
then copy them back after doing something like an Office repair?

Thanks, Marti

The categories are stored in the Windows registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\O utlook\Categories

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Christian Goeller
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