Two Questions regarding useing categories in Outlook 2007:

First Question: How do I copy and paste categories from one email to another.

Background
In Outlook 2003, I was able to show the category field in the inbox,
hightlight and copy the categories from this field, and paste those
categories (sometimes as many as 10) into a task or calendar or another
email. (when my emails are replied to, the answering email comes back with
the category field empty, so I copy the categories from my recent email of
the same subject and then paste that into the received reply. When I sort on
the category field, all mail in the inbox or sent box appear together in the
same category groups. No searching for emails in folders, etc. By using
categories such as Travel and Proj1, Proj2, etc. I can look in any of the
categories to find the same email.

By using categories in this way, I never "file" my emails. I simply take
each months inbox and sentbox items and move them to a personal folder which
covers a year of inbox and a year of sentbox. Two boxes. Two files.

Question without background: How do I copy Categories from a sent email to a
received email.

"AnnieB" wrote:

AFAIK you can't copy color categories like you could categories in 2003.

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"AnnieB" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Diane,

Thank you so much for your response. I hope that you will convey my
dissappointment is losing this feature to the developers.

What the loss means to me is that I will now have to categorize my replys in
a most cumbersome fashion to get the fantastic result I was getting before,
which was grouping my inbox by category to see my correspondense in the many
projects they relate to. This makes connecting my correspondence to projects
so much easier than "filing" everything in separate folders. I have emails
that relate to more than one project and simply categorizing them was so easy
and then copying the categories to a response email made everything so
streamlined.

Is there a way to function as simply and I was in 03? I am glad that I can
still connect one email to several categories, but now I have to highlight
the original email, and the new email and then open and scroll through the
categories and uncheck and recheck each one so the same categories are
"entered" into the new email.

Please let me know if there is a plan to continue supporting the categories
in the manner I have described.