Explain more specifically what you are doing.

Try using the Simple list view of the Contacts folder and adding the
Categories column manually, then use the Group By box to group by category.
Turning on your advanced toolbar will enable you to reach the buttons that
do these functions.

Re the Master Category List - what happens when you try to delete a
Category? BTW deleting a category from the Master Category List will still
leave Contacts already categorised in the Category.

Judy Gleeson, MVP Outlook
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!


"Annie Best" Annie wrote in message
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I am a new user on Outlook 2000. I have MS Office 2003, including Outlook,
on order. If upgrade will solve my problem, please advise. If not, what
am
I doing wrong.

I've added several new contacts each belonging to a new category. I show
my
contacts in the contacts folder sort by category. Unless these new ones
have
multiple categories assigned, the folder view will not show them. Is
there a
maximum number of categories that I may have exceeded? Also, in trying to
figure out what was wrong, I created several "dummy" categories which I
cannot seem to delete from the Master Category List. Please help.