I posted this issue recently, and all the responses appear to be incorrect.

I want to assign categories to emails, so that I can search my Sent emails
by category, but NOT have the recipient see the assigned category.

I was told by at least two previous posters that Outlook 2007 would do this.
(I had Office 2003.) So, after buying Office 2007 Ultimate, installing it,
and testing it (many hours and hundreds of dollars later), NADA. It does NOT
work as I was told it would.

Would somebody tell me (correctly) how I can get Outlook 2003 to do this?

This is the only reason I bought Office Ultimate 2007. (I do not like the
ribbon. It undoes years of prior learning.)

Again, how can I assign categories to an email, then send it, such that the
recipients will NOT see the assigned category, but that I WILL see the
assigned category?

(VBA code to set Item.Categories ="" erases categories from the recipients'
emails AND my emails [in the Sent folder]. OL 2007's rule on stripping
categories likewise strips it from recipients AND my Sent folder.)

(Previous posts were on 7/10/2009 and 7/12/2009. 7/12/2009 answer
[incorrectly] said:

Outlook supports stripping categories from outgoing mail but retaing
them in your mailbox. See Rules and Alerts-Start from a New Rule-On
Outgoing messages. Follow th wizard.)



1) How do I

Perhaps someone here can answer that, but I think you're better off
posting in microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba - reason...

You are saying you have an email with a category, and want to strip it
upon (prior really) sending so that any recipient with Outlook won't see
it (I wouldn't think other email programs would be able to use it) - and
then when it's in Sent Items, you want to "re-touch" it (put the
category back).

Hence I think you'll need to code that - and have your own special
"send" button perhaps - so... you make said email, press your custom
send button and your code does the biz (gets the category and keeps it,
strips it from the email, sends the email, looks up the email in Sent
Items and puts the category back).

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Duncan

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I posted this issue recently, and all the responses appear to be incorrect.

I want to assign categories to emails, so that I can search my Sent emails
by category, but NOT have the recipient see the assigned category.

I was told by at least two previous posters that Outlook 2007 would do this.
(I had Office 2003.) So, after buying Office 2007 Ultimate, installing it,
and testing it (many hours and hundreds of dollars later), NADA. It does NOT
work as I was told it would.

Would somebody tell me (correctly) how I can get Outlook 2003 to do this?

This is the only reason I bought Office Ultimate 2007. (I do not like the
ribbon. It undoes years of prior learning.)

Again, how can I assign categories to an email, then send it, such that the
recipients will NOT see the assigned category, but that I WILL see the
assigned category?

(VBA code to set Item.Categories ="" erases categories from the recipients'
emails AND my emails [in the Sent folder]. OL 2007's rule on stripping
categories likewise strips it from recipients AND my Sent folder.)

(Previous posts were on 7/10/2009 and 7/12/2009. 7/12/2009 answer
[incorrectly] said:

Outlook supports stripping categories from outgoing mail but retaing
them in your mailbox. See Rules and Alerts-Start from a New Rule-On
Outgoing messages. Follow th wizard.)



1) How do I

CuriousGeorge, you wrote on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:23:01 -0700:

Again, how can I assign categories to an email, then send it, such that the
recipients will NOT see the assigned category, but that I WILL see the
assigned category?

That's not possible. By default Outlook 2007 remvoves all assigned
categories of outgoing emails. To prevent that, you have to set a
registry value (google for "SendPersonalCategories"). The categories
then remain in the mail, but the receipient will see them as well.


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Best Regards
Christian Goeller

MVP - MS Outlook
http://www.outlookfaq.net