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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Anonymous commented
I agree!
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Anonymous
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What a genius you are, removing some basic feature at our daily task. Give it back asap.
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Anonymous
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Please bring Calendar grid view filter by categories. Loss of this feature notably impacts utility of Outlook in my use scenario as an intensive category user in multi-client, multi-project setting.
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Anonymous
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I use categories to show types of clients as well as past clients. Without the filter, I have one huge list of contacts and no way to narrow it down. Removing filtering makes Outlook useless as a contact manager.
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Sten
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This is insane. I can give a contact a category but it is ENTIRELY MEANINGLESS unless I can filter by that value!
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Jeremy
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The fact that this was removed it just nuts. I can't believe you guys thought this was a good idea. I'm so furious right now.
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EA
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I used to be able to select the Travel category and print a monthly calendar showing where during the month the executive would be out of the office traveling. Why would you remove that?
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Anonymous
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hello,
I can't use anymore my contacts.
How can you work when you can't send a message to a group of people, as our customer to send the program of our movies, as of the bénévoles people that organise it, or as at my rugby mates ?....
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Nils Hofmeister
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I can't believe you removed the filtering, the categories loose half of their value. I used them to filter non-mandatory meetings that I would (optionally) still want to track. With Outlook 16.24 & the missing filtering, my calendar is so cluttered that it is unusable.
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Anonymous
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Please bring categories back, I have a lot of clients and use categories to block time for each, and where there are actions that cover multiple the ability to just drag the item to add the category was super-efficient over the new way.
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Anonymous
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Being able to categorize my appointments has been very helpful in the past; while I can still add a category to an appointment, now I can't do anything to sort or filter by category, which was sort of the point...
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Anonymous
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Please bring this feature back. I haver so many sub calendars within mine i would like to filter out and dont need visibility too.
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Jaimmy
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I use to filter all of my coworkers OOO so I could see my meetings for the day. I have over 20 or so coworkers and now I have to open up each day individually to see my week. Super inconvenient.
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David
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Very strange to remove such a fundamental feature to calendar organization.
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Andre Kruger
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I actively used my database of connections for training courses and need to discriminate for example invitations to different groups of people on my contact list. I have created an elaborate database and need the feature back.
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Matt Bartlett
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Who in the world at MS thought it was a good idea to remove this?! It cripples my business!!
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Glenn Tucker
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Please bring this feature back. Outlook is diminished without it.
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Jim Wilson
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I used category filtering extensively in the past to show/hide various levels of detail in my calendar. Things like multi-day travel events; meetings I lead; mandatory meetings I don't lead; optional meetings. As others have said, one frustrating experience was assuming that the feature was present and I just needed to figure out how to turn it back on/show it/whatever. It didn't occur to me that MS would just eliminate the feature. While we're on the subject, not only would I like the feature back, but I'd like to be able to show/hide events in a category across all Office 365 calendars (I have four Office 365 accounts -- don't ask).
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Ayhan
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totally agree. Taking this feature away is terrible. Please bring it back ASAP.
I would never have updated if I'd known about it.
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Helene Spork
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please restore the category feature asap. my calendar is a complete mess now, whereas I was warned the update was crucial for security reasons. Had I known this would happen, I would never have installed the update. I am really ****** off about it.
