I'm trying to switch to using categories instead of folders in Outlook. I have about 30 so far, but will expand to over 100. When I'm assigning a category to an email and it doesn't show up in the most often used list, there is an option to show All Categories at the bottom (very nice). A window pops up with the entire list of categories and I can pick it. But when I'm searching for an email and use categories as a criteria (I click in the search box the click on the Categorized pull down icon), I hit a roadblock! As usual, the window only shows the 15 most often used categories, but the option at the bottom is now Any Category. The icon looks the same as All Categories, but does not produce the pop up window with the entire list, instead it inserts a blank in the search box where the category must be typed in. My categories have long project codes and syntax that I cannot remember and since I would be spending a great deal of time using this function, typing them in while reading them from another list would be counterproductive. Is there a patch, macro, or fix of some kind to make this work, or should I go back to using folders? Thanks. -P
