Sue,
I did this, and the only effect I see is that for whatever contact I'm
editing, the old category appears among all the color categories. However, as
there is not a complete list of all the old categories, I'm not able to
reassign the contact to a new category. Furthermore, if I create a new
contact altogether, only the colors appear and none of the old categories.

Am I better off renaming all the color names to my old category names, and
then doing a mass reassignment of the contacts to these color categories?

Thanks, Vlad

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Right-click the top folder in your folder hierarchy (Outlook Today), choose Properties, and click Upgrade to Color Categories.

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Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

"Vlad" wrote in message ...
Hi,
I upgraded to Outlook 07. Where before I had highly useful categories like
Travel, Personal, Business, now I don't see those categories and instead see
a bunch of (useless to me) colors in the category list. All of my contacts
are categorized with the old categories and I want to continue doing this
going forward. Can anything be done about this?