Many people prefer to use color category in Outlook to classify emails, contacts, appointments, etc. This article will look at how to let Outlook color categorize appointments automatically.
So as to manage my appointments in Outlook more effectively, I tend to color categorize them. One day, after I created one appointment, I intended to color categorize it. An idea occurred to my mind. How can I have Outlook do this work automatically for me? If you have the same aspiration, read on to have a look at my methods.
Auto Categorize Appointments in Outlook Calendar
- At the very outset, launch Outlook program. Then shift to Outlook Calendar pane.
- After getting into Calendar pane, switch to “View” and then click on “View Settings”. In the dialog box of “advanced View Settings”, press “Conditional Formatting” button.
- Another new dialog box will show up, in which you should click “Add” button to create a new conditional formatting rule.
- Next specify a name for this rule according to the type of the appointments, such as “Private Date Category”. And then click the down arrow in “Color” field, and choose a preferred color from the drop down list.
- After that, hit “Condition” button to specify which appointments belong to this category. In the “Filter” dialog box, you need to input the words that you usually use for the target appointments in “search for the word(s)”, such as “date”. Apart from specifying the search words, you could also rule other specifications, such as “attendees”, “organize by”, “time” and so on.
- Finally click several “OK” until all the dialog boxes are closed.
Henceforth, whenever you create new appointments whose subjects contain the key word “subject” will be color categorized automatically according to your conditional formatting settings before.
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Actually, this is not categorizing calendar appointments as it just formats the appointments with specific colors. This has nothing to do with actually categorizing calendar appointments. It is also worth to mention that if a category is assigned to an appointment (e.g. through an automatic rule applied upon reception of a meeting invitation) it overrules the color formatting described in here so the formatting is not visible unless the actual category is removed from the appointment.
I am also wondering if it’s possible for a delegate to auto-categorize calendar appointments for another user?