> 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.
>
> Now all I do is go to one or the other inbox folder, sort by category,
> collapse all groups and scroll to the group I need. (I suppose the way you
> would see items in a folder, but without ever taking the time to "file" the
> mail.) This is very useful when I have email from Bob and he is working on
> more than one project with me, and sometimes his email contains information
> for each project. Rather than file two copies of the email, I categorize the
> email to Bob, Proj1, Proj2 and this one email will appear in any of those
> three categories.
>
> This saves me so much time!!!!! Which brings me to the second question,
>
> Question 2: Is there a keystroke short cut to call up All Categories List,
> so all I have to do is type a few letters of the category name, and tap the
> space bar to insert categories. The current way in 2007 is to find the
> option menu, choose categories, choose all categories and this is all with
> the mouse. I want to use the keyboard, which is much quicker for repetative
> tasks.
>
> Conclusion
> As you can see, it is very important to me to copy and paste categories from
> item to item and to enter them as quickly as possible.
>
> Can anyone help me find a way to do this in Outlook 2007?
>
> Thanks so much