Friday, February 22, 2008

Tips: Delete Categories in Outlook 2007

You have some Categories on your device that you want to get rid of and can't seem to find any option to do that anywhere, do not search the device anymore because this is done in Outlook on the desktop. So, open Outlook and click Edit > Categorize > All Catogories. The Color Categories window opens. Chedck the Categories you want to remove and click Delete. We're not done yet. These categories are still on your device. To delete them on the Pocket PC/Smartphone, connect the device to sync with Outlook. The categories are removed from your pda. However, they will remain in the Category field of the contacts they were assigned to. This is a default and the only workaround is to remove them manually.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Contact manager in WM6 6 does not remove unused categories even if there are no contacts that use them and if they are deleted in your Outlook.

Simple way to do it:

1. Make sure you deleted all unneeded categories in Outlook.
2. Sync PPC with Outlook.
3. Rename file pim on PPC to something else.
4. Soft reset. PPC will create new empty pim.
5. Sync again.
6. Delete the file that you renamed old pim to in step 3.

You are done.

Anonymous said...

I deleted the pim file, but my PPC dont't start :-(

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