Remove Category from several Contacts

Judy · External Since: Dec 23, 2005 Posts: 4

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.

Sue Mosher [MVP] · External Since: Oct 15, 2009 Posts: 13

Select all the contacts you want to change, right-click, choose Categories
from the context menu, and clear the check box for that category.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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"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.
>