From the course: Outlook: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks (2019)

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Managing with categories

Managing with categories

From the course: Outlook: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks (2019)

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Managing with categories

- [Instructor] Categories aren't just another pretty face. You can combine categories with views to see items in different categories. For example here in my inbox if I click on view, one of my choices is to view by categories. Here are items that are in conference and present, items that I have placed in creative. If two or more categories have been assigned to an item then it will show up on each of those categories here in the inbox. If I go to my calendar and I go to view, one of my choices is to switch to a list view, for example list and in the list view, I can then view by categories. Here are items that are in budget finance, conference, present, creative, and so on. I cannot filter this calendar view by category and color is just assigning a default color. It doesn't change our categories at all. But remember that you can always switch to any type of a list view and invoke categories as a way to be able to sort or to filter in this particular view. But if I want to have a…

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