Outlook 2007 Category Colors

The Categories in Outlook 2007 show up as blank colors and say (not in Master Category list) after them, so the correct name of the category appears just not the color or the entire category list or whatever like it shoul. It has before I don't know why it stopped working. I have Win7 64-bit, HotSync 7.0.2, Palm Desktop 6.2.2
Hope that is enough to get a solution, thanks if you help.
Post relates to: Tungsten E2

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I tried this on a Centro Sprint device and it synced the colors as well as the category as well. If I may, when you installed palm desktop did you also install the outlook 2007 conduit update? If not this could be why. If you go here and download and install the 2007 conduit update it may start to work for you then. http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/outlook2007/outlook2007update.html. Also what Palm Desktop version are you using. If you open palm desktop then go to help and then about Palm Desktop and you should see the version there.
Message back so we can get this fixed for you
Edit: My coworker got the same thing happening as yours..But the category came over but no color on them for him what he explain as an extra step will be fine once you have it setup after that you wont have to change anything.
Message Edited by thepoeta15 on 06-25-2008 04:58 PM

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Outlook 2007 Calendar color coding (categories) of appointments and meeting

I synce my new iPhone 4 with Microsoft Outlook 2007 from work. I have all my appointment meetings color coded (categorized) in Outlook. The color coding is not showing up on my iPhone calendar. Why?

Hi,
I did a test on my side: The account in Outlook was an Outlook.com account, I created an appointment in its calendar, gave it a category. Then I logged on the calendar on
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Hey mate i had the same issue and was dumb founded till i came up with a solution that worked for me, and possibly someone out there looking for the same solution. Half the info i looked up was all bullshit and took me months to come up with a fix as
im busy with other priorities.
still busy so ill be quick...and not gonna get too technical just gonna lay it all out in steps
1. create a mail account in exchange eg.
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3. go to the exchange management console on the 'server ' right click the created
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if it dosent show up try - *on the users computer* start >run>cmd>gpupdate/force
this will force the update on some computer that didnt show up with the effect. only had this problem with 1 user and this fixed it :)
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Category colors not syncing with Outlook

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Post relates to: Centro (AT&T)

Hello!
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Hi folks,
I cannot imagine that my BB 8800 with the BB desktop 5.0.1. and the device frim ware 4.5.0.174 isn't able to sync the MS outlook 2007 categories with the BB canlendar.
Where is the trick? I'm sure that there is a RIM solution. Many thanks!
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I'm hugely relieved to have come up with a solution.... The BB calendar doesn't support categories, and RIM seems indifferent to the problem, so just forget about that.... but at least now I can sync Outlook (2007/Win 7) with multiple Google calendars, using an absolutely wonderful product, which I just discovered, calleg gSyncit. Then I use Google Sync to sync Google calendars with my BB. Unless you want to go through the incredible mess of installing multiple "dummy" gmail accounts to create multiple calendars on the BB, all the events will be in the same calendar, and will have the same color, but at least all the events will be there, and they sync correctly with Google, and subsequently, back to Outlook.
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Exchange Outlook Calendar categories Color

Hi, I do not know if somebody already asked this question, but I still can figure it out.
On my outlook 2007 calendar which is sync via exchange to my iPhone I have most of the events in Categories, each with different colors. But when I go to my iPhone any of them have the color/category that is assigned to them.
Anybody knows why?
Thanks.

I had the same issue& here's the work-around:
Now , i don't use exchange, so I am not sure if this is possible for you, but what I was go to the left hand side of Outlook, where you see "My Calendars".
1. create new a new calendar for similar things (ex: Birthdays & Anniversaries). Follow this step so that you have a few different calendars, all corresponding to your colored categories.
2. Go up to "View" & change the view to "category". Now drag & drop the categories that the color coded categories correspond to the NEW calendars.
3. the new calendars may not correspond color wise, but at least they will be differentiated enough for you to decipher on your iPhone calendar.
check out this link for help using multiple calendars in Outlook: http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102063801033&pid=CR 100654581033

Category Colors?

I have tried and tried to get the Category Colors that I choose on Outlook 2007 to transfer over to my Palm Centro byt they dont, every even on the calendar is the same color. Is it possible to sync over the same Calendar Colors?
Post relates to: Centro (AT&T)

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I tried this on a Centro Sprint device and it synced the colors as well as the category as well. If I may, when you installed palm desktop did you also install the outlook 2007 conduit update? If not this could be why. If you go here and download and install the 2007 conduit update it may start to work for you then. http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/outlook2007/outlook2007update.html. Also what Palm Desktop version are you using. If you open palm desktop then go to help and then about Palm Desktop and you should see the version there.
Message back so we can get this fixed for you
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Source of Multiple Calendars in Outlook 2007 and iCloud (iOS7.0.4)

Source of Multiple Calendars in Outlook 2007 and iCloud (iOS7.0.4)
My iPhones (2) and iPad list the following color-coded calendar names when the word "Calendar" is pressed at the bottom of the calendar screen: All iCloud (no colored dot), Calendar (Blue Dot), Home (orange Dot), Saved emails (red dot), and Saved emails (2)( green dot).
Calendar items created on both iPhones are coded with a blue dot and appear on a blue background in iCloud and on the phones. Calendar items created on my iPad appear on a green background (saved emails 2) on my iPad and my iphones. Why isn't the color "Blue"? It appears that entries made on Outlook appear in Saved Emails (red).
I have not imported or connected with any external calendars.
This behavior raises the following questions:
1) Should entries created on each device appear in a different color?
2) Does the color associated with an entry designate a specific device or a specific type of device?
3) Which device is the "Home" device referred to in paragraph 1 above?
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My understanding about synching with iCloud was that any entry from any iDevice (phone or pad) or iCloud would appear in both iCloud and in the calendars of all devices on the same Apple Account. Please confirm my understanding or correct it.
With iCloud as the hub, must I still utilize Microsoft Outlook? I am retired and no longer need Outlook for work.
Can I edit any calendar entry in I cloud had have it change it in all the devices, or must it be edited in the device in which the entry was originally made?
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I would ditch Outlook like a bad habit.
Now to answer your questions starting at the bottom. yes, you can edit any and all iCloud Calendars on iCloud.com. You can rename your calendars, re-color them, create, edit or delete events, etc.
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For the begging about our environment: Exchange 2007, Outlook 2007.
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Anyone else notice a nasty HTML / Outlook 2007 bug with iPhone 2.0? I've pasted the bug that I submitted to Apple below. So far I've gotten no response. =(
Summary:
I have found a major bug with sending and receiving HTML emails between iPhone 2.0 and Outlook 2007. When you reply to any email that comes from Outlook 2007 that reply will include broken HTML tags as part of the message. As a result, with each additional reply the message will double in size. It appears these additional replies hit the broken HTML tag and then insert another entire copy of the email. This happens with each and every reply, until after four or five when the phone can no longer deal with the message due to size.
Steps to Reproduce:
Send an email with HTML formatting to yourself using Outlook 2007.
Reply to the message from the iPhone. The first reply will be fine.
Reply using Outlook 2007 (make sure the formatting is still HTML).
Reply to the message from the iPhone. This reply will include broken HTML tags, and begin the repeat copies inside the email.
Expected Results:
No formatting issues on replies, no repeat copies of the email inside each reply causing unusable message size growth.
Actual Results:
Broken HTML tags appear in the replies and cause the message to double in size with each reply. An example of some of the tags that show up are things like:
color:#1F497D">
or
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">
They do not have the starting "<", which appears to be the root of the issue. These tags will show up near special HTML formatting, such as links or font changes.
Regression:
The problem always happens on iPhone 2.0 when an HTML formatted reply Outlook 2007 is part of the email chain. This appears to happen with all types of accounts.
Notes:
I'm assuming that with as many people that use Outlook 2007 I'm not the only person to report this. Our company uses Outlook 2007 as a standard deployment and this bug alone is making us unable to deploy iPhones to employees. I'm really hoping that a fix is already in the works and will be in the next update of 2.0!
Thanks.

eric9603,
Have you been able to reproduce this with emails back and forth with any other Mail client besides Outlook that composes in HTML?
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Hi guys, just got a MacBook Pro this week and I had reserved a copy of Office 2008 which I got today.
It's great because that's what I was waiting for to put my PC on sale
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I was using Office 2007 for PC therefore Outlook 2007.
The only way we can export stuff is by creating .PST files, so you can backup all your contacts, your messages with attachements and your calendar (which are my 3 priorities).
Using the equivalent application from Microsoft but for the Mac, that is : Entourage 2008, there's not the option to import .pst ?? What the heck ??
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Hey guys,
I don't want to be repeting by here's the way I worked this out :
EMAILS
First I installed Thunderbird on my Win computer.
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At first I was crashing it but then I let it work for a try and it imported everything perfectly, but not showing any progress bar during the process.
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That did the job for me anyways.
CONTACTS
Send yourself emails of contacts !
I sent myself email (with the WORK OFFLINE option so I wouldn't receive them in outlook) in the contacts from outlook.
As you can imagine, I totally got rid of Outlook, and of Windows actually, by now but as I remember it when you right click on a contact you have an item that's called something like "send full information of contact through email".
So to keep my categories I sent one email per categories.
Back in entourage, I had to save attachements, import them, put them in a category.
Then next email, etc. and so on.
CALENDAR
I haven't found a way to do this but what I did was : In outlook you have a way to display your calendar events by a list, so I just made a couple of print screen of that list and I put the future events that I wanted to keep in Entourage.
And the conclusion is :
Well I said byebye to Entourage because I don't need MS Exchange support and I hate Microsoft more and more everyday so I'm using Mail, Address Book and iCal now
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