Please bring back the categories feature in Outlook for Mac.
It difficult to filter out the information while on the Calendar, Notes, Task or Contacts.
At least give the option to filter by Category on list view and collapse group like in Windows Outlook.
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Paul LeBar
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I'm puzzled by the decision to remove filtering by Category from Tasks, Calendar, Contacts (filtering in Tasks is especially useful to me) when it is still available for filtering emails, and filtering tasks by other criteria is also still available. That doesn't look to be a consistent design.
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Paul LeBar
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I will cast my vote. But since it has been more than a year since the removal of this powerful feature with not mention of restoring it, I'm not very hopeful. If there is a Microsoft rep that monitors these threads, could you let us know if we there is any action stirring, or if we should just set our hope aside?
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Marshall Mackey
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Sigh in
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John Ikel commented
Moved to O365 today and the first thing my Mac did was upgrade me from 16.14/15 to 16.35 and BOOM! there goes my workflow for producing a coherent status report that I have been using for the past 3 or 4 years. Thanks!
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Anonymous
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This would be extremely helpful feature to have.
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Bart Vanderstraeten
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Yeah guys, please! I miss the categories!
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Richard Fink
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For God sake man, we have been using Categories for the life of Outlook! Yes, we have moved from Windows to Macs but our use of Categories has not changed. Now its all tossed to the WIND!
Bring the **** things back will you- IMMEDIATELY!
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Richard Fink
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For God sake man, we have been using Categories for the life of Outlook! Yes, we have moved from Windows to Macs but our use of Catagories has not changed. Now its all tossed to the WIND!
Bring the **** things back will you- IMMEDIATELY!
I got to ask, why would you do this? -
Sam Wheatley
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I was asked to 'request a feature'. Very annoyed that I have to request a feature that was in and working fine, but now removed for whatever reason. Put this back in, people have seemingly been asking for this for years and we get mugged off with 'we'll look at it'.
Look at it now, get it reinstated, and don't celebrate it's return like you're doing us a favour.
Or it's a return to iCal and Mail.
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Anonymous
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Removing the category filter seriously compromises the usefulness of the outlook calendar - we used to have a massive work group calendar that could easily be filtered to show calendars for individuals projects . Now it's a mess...
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Anonymous
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Agreed. Im confused why categories were removed from the calendar. It's vital for working with client deadlines/events. Please add back in.
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Anonymous
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bring back now!!!! I can't use outlook without it!
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Jhernie
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Really would like to see this feature reinstated. Why no response from Microsoft?
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Cheryl Lynn
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Please bring this feature back!!!! Who the heck thought it was a good idea to remove this???
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David Smith
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Whatever PM approved removing this needs to be fired.
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Anonymous
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Please bring back this feature - it is much needed in a complex project portfolio environment.
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Anonymous
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Hiding categories in calendars was huge for me. Please bring it back!
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Susanne Bohl
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I just upgraded to the latest Outlook for Mac and find the lack of showing/hiding categories a BIG problem.
When will this feature be back? It is a *critical* feature for anyone needing to do some serious contact management.
Meanwhile, please advise how to run Advanced search with "OR" criteria.
E.g. Category is Blue Or Green? I have not been able to figure out how to do this, yet.
This can be a workaround until the Categories are back in the show/hide navigation pane.Thank you.
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Anonymous
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+1
is there a workaround? -
Zelda
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I'm grateful to find this thread and learn that at least I'm not going crazy. It is difficult to understand the rationale to remove such a key feature. I am going to figure out how to downgrade and prevent upgrades in the meantime, since I am creating a workflow that is highly-dependent on the ability to filter any Outlook item by category.
