you only need to assign one contact per category - then group by category
and drag contacts to the category they should be in. You can use ctrl or
shift click to select more than one contact at a time. BTW - this trick
works to make mass changes to a number of fields.

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"sat" saturnin02_at_hotmail.com wrote in message
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Tx for the replies.
I can see that both you and Brian suggest the same thing.
I have thought about implementing it in the past but since I use
synchronizing software with a cell phone and some mishaps have occurred
previously, it just seems risky to have all my contacts in one folder
only.
I now have perhaps 1000 contacts and just thinking of going through each
one and assigning it a category gives me a headache.....
Any further comments?


Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:
That would require a lot of programming. Why not use categories to
categorize the contacts? Use custom views to show/hide them by category.