Brian,

Thanks for your comment, I too, do not use categories, but the fact that
they are there has never been a problem. In fact I had never even looked at
that feature/property until one of the people I support started having
issues, caused by a marginally, at best, advertised change by MS for no good
reason. So here is the way I see it, unless you actually use the "category"
feature for sorting, viewing ect, it is invisible so leaving it alone would
NOT impact ANYONE ever, nor prevent you from changing it to a category of
your choice, but making this change DOES affect everyone who uses this
feature in the manor my user was, (Look around, you'll find a LOT of people
use it for similar reasons and in similar ways to my user.)

Bottom line is, use them or not as to your liking, but since they ARE, in
effect, invisible to the NON USER, why make such a change which will SCREW up
those who do. It just does not make good since, instead if it is such a
problem, why not just provide the rule and leave it unchecked, with EASY, (I
know not a word in MS vocabulary) to find info on their knowledge base,
newsgroups etc that it is there.

If it had been the rule from day one then everyone, by now, who uses the
feature would know to adjust that rule as needed, but to make such a major
change for such a minor thing without good compelling reason, is just plain
not good engineering. It certainly would not have gone over well with any of
my professors when I was going to college getting my engineering degree.

Ralph Malph


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Ralph Malph wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply. It seems you have identified the
source of our problem...Typical Microsoft Stupidity...LOL what is
wrong with those guys. Why on earth would one EVER come up with such
a stupid idea as to remove that item. In fact why even have a
"Category" field if you are just going to strip the info right out of
the e-mail. Don't you sometimes just want to slap these people upside
the head and see if there is anything up there?

I believe the decision to be a good one. I do not care what categories you
have chosen for yourself and I certainly don't want them on appointments
that I receive. If I want a category on them, I'll put one of my own
choosing on them. Kudos for Microsoft for providing this functionality.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]