Color Categories in Conversation View

I recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 2010. I'm very excited about the new Conversation View in this version of Outlook, but I have one concern. I have been using categories to sort my email into different groups based on colors. However,
when I enable Coversation View, the color icon next to each category disappears (only the text name of the category is displayed). Is there a way to display the color icon in Conversation View like it displays in the other views?

Hi there,
I cannot reproduce what you said. When I enable the Conversation View in my Outlook, the category shows as normal. Have you changed anything else?
Or try to reset the view setting, you can find the Reset View
button from the View ribbon >> Current View.
Sincerely,
Max Meng
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answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

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