Making new fields in Contacts can be very useful.

Maybe a Yes/No field for "Vendor" would work. Then you can do a double
grouping by using the Group By Box.

Drag Vendor and Category into the Group By Box. One of those groups will be
just what you want to find. The Group By Box is on the Advanced Toolbar.

Regards

Judy

"bsharp" wrote:

I'm trying to create sub-categories for my contacts in Outlook 2007.

For example, the main category would be "Vendors" and then the
sub-categories would be carpet, paint, drywall, etc.

I realize that I can create categories like - "Vendors - Carpet" but then my
category list would be incredibly large. I have a lot of categories and
sub-categories.

One idea I had is to create a user-defined field with a drop-down menu, but
I can only select one item in that list. Some of my contacts fit into more
than one category and sub-category. For example, I like to flag my past
clients, and have them on a particular newsletter list, and also flag them as
a carpet cleaner.

1. Is there a way to select more than one item in a drop down list?
2. Is there another way to do sub-categories apart from the category list,
but still be able to sort on it?