Select all the contacts you want to change, right-click, choose Categories
from the context menu, and clear the check box for that category.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
"Judy" <homehunter808.TakeThisOut@yahoo.dot.com> wrote in message
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>I have some "temporary" categories that I'd like to delete. Deleting the
>category doesn't remove it from the contacts. I'd like to be able to open
>Contacts in "by Category" view, delete the temporary category from all the
>Contacts in it, then delete the category. There must be a way to do this
>without opening each contact and deleting the category one by one.
>