Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Categories

Categories are labels you can apply to just about any Entourage item. They’re designed to let you apply an organizational scheme to a group of items that don’t otherwise have much in common. For example, you can define a category related to a trip that you’re taking, or to a certain work project, and apply that category to dissimilar Entourage information bits (calendar, email, and to-do items, for example). Each category can have its own color, making it easy to identify those items at a glance. Categories, in other words, are a yet another convenient, easy-to-use means of helping you organize and keep track of your Entourage information.

Setting Up Categories

Entourage comes with an assortment of prefab categories—Family, Friends, Holiday, Junk, Personal, Recreation, Travel, and Work. If you import holidays into Entourage—see the box on Saving Calendars as Web Pages—they show up in a category of their own.

Note

Don’t confuse Categories with Entourage’s Project Center feature. Although both are methods for organizing disparate bits of information, the Project Center does much more than merely assign an organizational label to an item. For a full discussion of the Project Center, flip to Project Center.

You can also create new categories, of course. For example, every organized activist needs categories like Environment, Salmon, Blogging, and Fundraising. To do so, choose Edit Categories from the Categories pop-up button on the toolbar, or choose Edit → Categories → Edit Categories. ...