By "task list," do you mean a folder view not the custom form itself?

Form regions are a new developer feature in Outlook 2007 that allow you to create panes that can display in the Inspector window without the need for a custom form. There is extensive information on these in Help. I've also posted some links at http://outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=59

In either a form region or a legacy custom form page, you can drag the Categories property from the Field Chooser to the page, creating a text box where the user can type in a list of categories.

If you want to copy data from one property to another for all items in a folder, you can do that with a VBA macro. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Nat" wrote in message ...
Thanks for the prompt response, however I wanted clarification on what you
meant by "it will need to be done on a separate custom page or, in Outlook
2007, a form region. What is a separate form region??? This is just a Task
list in Outlook 2007, but instead of just showing Subject & Due Date, this
one has additional fields. One of the fields is labeled CATEGORIES but has
nothing to do with the built in Categories that OL uses to differentiate
meetings in your calendar. My guess is that the field will need to be
recreated with a different name .. maybe something like DECISION TYPE. If I
do that, is there a quick and easy way to copy all of the data from one
column to the newly added DECISION TYPE column or will that just have to be
manually entered again??

Thanks again,

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Typed in where? In a form, you don't need to type it in, because the user can click the Categories button on the toolbar.

If you want them to type it in, that will need to be done on a separate custom page or, in Outlook 2007, a form region.

"Nat" wrote in message ...
I am not sure if this is possible but here goes. We have a Tasks form which
was shared by the Staff Attorney's office and the clerks of the court, which
allowed for tracking of cases by attorney as well as status, etc.. The Court
is now using either OL XP or OL 03 .. depending on the user. In the tasks
form there is a field called CATEGORY in which the users can type in a code
.. such as ORD, OP, DEC ORD, etc.. Now that we are testing OL 07, and when
these shared tasks are viewed, the CATEGORY field is no longer able to be
typed in. It apparently is synching up with the categorization function of
the Calendar. I believe Sue Mosher explains this as a "multi-valued" keyword
field. Short of creating a new column, and manually copying over all the
existing codes, is there some way to make the CATEGORY field editable again?

I hope I explained this OK, and thanks in advance..