"bullseyebill" wrote in message
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I'm using Outlook 2007
I renamed the categories from red, blue, yellow, etc to a name I
wanted using the rename function or I go to the category icon and
create a category. I'm not doing anything weird. Then when I create
a new contact, I assign it a category, either by going to the category
icon or by using the hot key assigned to the category

I want to view contacts by category, so I have that option checked.
When I say directories, it just looked that way as under my contacts
in the left pane,, there is a listing for contacts, then for each of
the categories I have.

Those are the category groups. If you assign multiple categories to an item,
that item should appear in each of those category groups. All your categories
should be visible and all items in each category visible if you have that
group expanded, unless you have a view setting hiding particular entries. Try
resetting the view.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]