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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides several ways you can manage your Outlook items and folders, including organizing items in categories, creating and using folders to store items, using the Mailbox Cleanup tool, and using the Journal to organize your work. For example, you can create folders to store e-mail messages relating to projects on which you work, making it easier to locate those messages when you need them.
Categories let you organize and sort your data in Outlook. You might assign a project category to all items for a specific project and then set up a view in each Outlook folder that displays the items grouped by category. This helps you quickly locate items associated with a specific project. Outlook 2007 adds color to categories, making them even more useful—you can now tell at a glance the categories assigned to specific items.
This section covers how to manage your items and folders in Outlook 2007. It covers how to categorize items, organize folders, delete items, and clean up folders.
Categories are colors with associated keywords or phrases that help you manage Outlook items, such as contacts, e-mail messages, journal entries, and meetings. With categories, you can set up relationships between items stored in different places in Outlook. For example, you can categorize a piece of e-mail and a meeting reminder as business items. Then when you sort, filter, or search for all your business-related items, that e-mail message and meeting reminder appear. The addition of color to categories in Outlook 2007 lets you tell at a glance what categories are assigned to an item.
A category indicator appears in the Categories column and in the header.
You can associate an item with as many categories as you like. The more categories with which you associate an item, the easier it is to find when you conduct searches.
You can also choose Categorize from the Edit menu, and then choose a category from the resulting cascading menu.
If this is the first time you have used the category, Outlook asks if you want to change the color. For now, just click No. You learn about changing category properties later in this section.
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