Well, no you didn't apply color categories in Outlook 2003 because it did
not support them - it’s a feature new to outlook 2007. If you applied
colors, you used labels.

FWIW, there shouldn't be a need to make appointments as finished - when the
time has passed the appointment is finished unless you skipped out on it.
If you just need reminders to follow up with no set time period for the
meeting, you should be using tasks.



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"On-Site MassageWorks" wrote
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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
Copy them so they break out of the recurrence and change the category of
the
single event. Or make individual events, not recurring. (Either make in
Excel or make recurring in outlook, export to excel then import to
convert
to individual events.)

Export here, import back again? SO not an elegant solution!

I commented as much on another thread on the same basic topic:

"In Outlook 2003, you could set up a recurring calendar item - obviously
saves time over setting up individual calendar events - and tag the series
with a colored-coded category. THEN, you could open up each instance of a
recurrence and change the category color.

Sounds rather idiosyncratic but... I relied heavily on this functionality
in
my small business. I'd set up A-B-C-D series with a color like
'important'.
Date A would arrive and I'd know I needed to follow up with Person 1. Once
that communication was satisfied, I could change the category color to
'none'
which told me that the matter was resolved. Date B would arrive, and I'd
repeat the process.

It was one of the many little ways I used Outlook's calendar function as a
running to-do list (more than Tasks, I must admit).

Now I see Outlook 2007 has consolidated the category functions across
Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc, dramatically expanding the category
choices -
which is great. So, with one hand they giveth and with the other they
taketh
away. Not cool. I want a patch!"