Our office has a public folder on exchange 2003 that contains a shared tasks
list. In Outlook 2003, when adding a task we could enter a category "on the
fly" which worked perfectly for us. I have recently upgraded to Outlook 2007
and although I can see the categories of all the existing public folder
tasks, I can't enter or amend any text in the category column when I add or
amend a task. Do I have to create a category each time ? (we could have
hundreds of categories). Also it seems that it will only show you 15
categories max, this means I have to select "All categories" each time ?

Is there a way to have the categories work the way they used to in OL 2003 ?

Sounds like you had "allow in-cell editing" enabled for your view. You can
enable it in "Other settings" for your view.

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"Rick" wrote in message
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Our office has a public folder on exchange 2003 that contains a shared
tasks
list. In Outlook 2003, when adding a task we could enter a category "on
the
fly" which worked perfectly for us. I have recently upgraded to Outlook
2007
and although I can see the categories of all the existing public folder
tasks, I can't enter or amend any text in the category column when I add
or
amend a task. Do I have to create a category each time ? (we could have
hundreds of categories). Also it seems that it will only show you 15
categories max, this means I have to select "All categories" each time ?

Is there a way to have the categories work the way they used to in OL 2003
?

Hi Roady,

Thanks for the suggestion, but "Allow in-cell editing" is turned on. I can
edit all other columns in the view, but in OL 2007, the Categories column is
locked and I cannot edit it directly.

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

Sounds like you had "allow in-cell editing" enabled for your view. You can
enable it in "Other settings" for your view.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Rick" wrote in message
news
Our office has a public folder on exchange 2003 that contains a shared
tasks
list. In Outlook 2003, when adding a task we could enter a category "on
the
fly" which worked perfectly for us. I have recently upgraded to Outlook
2007
and although I can see the categories of all the existing public folder
tasks, I can't enter or amend any text in the category column when I add
or
amend a task. Do I have to create a category each time ? (we could have
hundreds of categories). Also it seems that it will only show you 15
categories max, this means I have to select "All categories" each time ?

Is there a way to have the categories work the way they used to in OL 2003
?