I know that is the the way they are supposed to look and if I place a new
contact into multiple categories then they have the comma followed by a space
then the next category.

However all my existing contacts have the Category name, then a comma
followed by the next category name without a space in between. I believe
because of this Outlook is recognizing the entire category list as one
category. For example, one of my contacts looks like this
Business,Personal,VIP. So when I attempt to sort by category Outlook does not
distinguish between the 3 categories, but instead lists the entire list as a
single category.

I am using Outlook 2003 with SP2.

As a side note, I exported my contact list to Excel and noticed that in the
categories column all the categories were separated by a comma except for the
contacts I had corrected manually. They were separated by a semicolon.

"Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)" wrote:

When I place a Contact in more than one Category, mine have a comma, then a
space, then the next Category.

What version? What exact method did you use to Categorise them?

You can't sort by Category so what are you actually trying to do?


"tjbutter3" wrote in message
...
When a contact is assigned to multiple categories, each category is
separated
by a comma and no space. Hence, when I try to sort by name, Outlook treats
each category by one long name instead of the individual category names.
If I
select a contact and fix the problem by manually inserting a space between
each category name it will sort fine. However I have over 1500 contacts
and
that would be very time consuming. Has anybody experienced the same
problem
and/or have any suggestions for a fix? Thanks.