Comments on: Outlook 2007: Auto-assign categories on outgoing replies and forwards based on original message

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:24:30 +0000

This has been really helpful.
I am looking for help on setting the “Show As” classification to “Free” automatically when I receive an appointment invitation from a specific person.
Using Rules I can assign the Category but I cannot figure out how to cahnge the “Show As”… any thoughts?

By: Greg McGhee

Greg McGhee — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:05:20 +0000

Works in Office 2010 too. Thanks for the hack.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:47:29 +0000

How do I find that preference file to be able to change things?

I’m sure it’s simple but I’m not smart at this stuff at all.

By: Syed Ali

Syed Ali — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:13:35 +0000

This is just brilliant. Thank you!!!!

By: realhomero

realhomero — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:43:41 +0000

Five stars for you! I was getting crazy painting every mail that I sent.

Thanks a lot!

By: E. Bletchley

E. Bletchley — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:14:04 +0000

This may be the best technical post I have ever found. Thank you so much for solving and sharing the solution to a problem that was really vexing. Your fix worked perfectly. Thanks again.

By: Chaudhary Muhammad Asim

Chaudhary Muhammad Asim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:27 +0000

dear pingu,

i have this registry edit and works absolutely fine with me, there is only a compatibility issue between office 2007 and 2010 or any other different version of office. works very well with in the same version.

regards,
Asim.

By: George

George — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:09 +0000

Thank you. This was really bugging as i got used to it with outlook 2003. Your solution worked like a charm.
curious… how did you figure it out? and why did Microsoft disable it in 2007?

thanks again!

By: Rick Medford

Rick Medford — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:26:27 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It worked like a charm.

By: Tony Chung

Tony Chung — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:21:56 +0000

Jürgen,

THANKS for researching and writing about this tip. Automatic ategory removal was the primary “feature” that has kept my inbox uncategorized for the past year.

I really hate that MS-ware never provides GUI settings for the useful tweaks like this. Instead MS forces people to hack their registry, which opens up other cans of worms.

Here’s another blog entry I found with a systematic solution (with or without VBA) to GTD your inbox to zero.
http://blogs.msdn.com/smguest/archive/2006/06/04/617343.aspx

Cheers,

-Tony