Automatic formatting stops in Outlook 2002!

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I have been using Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2002 to impose a Label
color based on the Category assigned to a problem. I had 10 formats working
for months, but when I added the eleventh today, suddenly MOST, but not all,
of my previously variously-colored appts have gone gray. I cannot see what
is common to the few that have retained color: they have different
categories, were entered at different times, etc. Any idea what's going on?
Remember, this is Outlook 2002, SP 3. Not on a network, not using Exchange.

Thanks.
 
was the 11th rule coloring them gray?

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Oh, clever lady! However, the mystery deepens:

No, my 11th rule was NOT to color them gray. But I do have a rule, one of
the earliest I made, that does. "Tentative" category => gray.

Soooo, I tried turning off the Tentative rule...and mysteriously, everything
else (which never had been given the Tentative category) reverted to its
proper coloring. Tentatives, of course, are now white, ie no color. Turn
Tentative back on, and we are back to gray for everything.

As my kids would IM -- WT...

One thing solved -- those few appts that retain color do so because I set
them up with a Label, before I discovered Automatic Formatting. Adding the
eleventh rule just seems to break all the others.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Diane Poremsky said:
was the 11th rule coloring them gray?

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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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LSK said:
I have been using Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2002 to impose a Label
color based on the Category assigned to a problem. I had 10 formats
working
for months, but when I added the eleventh today, suddenly MOST, but not
all,
of my previously variously-colored appts have gone gray. I cannot see
what
is common to the few that have retained color: they have different
categories, were entered at different times, etc. Any idea what's going
on?
Remember, this is Outlook 2002, SP 3. Not on a network, not using
Exchange.

Thanks.
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Aha. I did a little more playing around, and either the settings got
corrupted (I also ran scanpst) or in the course of setting up #11, I modified
the "Tentative category" rule to remove the condition that category =
Tentative...so everything WOULD be gray, unless Labeled. I deleted and
reentered the Tentative rule, and all seems to be back to normal. Insert
blushing emoticon here. Thanks for jogging my troubleshooting.

LSK said:
Oh, clever lady! However, the mystery deepens:

No, my 11th rule was NOT to color them gray. But I do have a rule, one of
the earliest I made, that does. "Tentative" category => gray.

Soooo, I tried turning off the Tentative rule...and mysteriously, everything
else (which never had been given the Tentative category) reverted to its
proper coloring. Tentatives, of course, are now white, ie no color. Turn
Tentative back on, and we are back to gray for everything.

As my kids would IM -- WT...

One thing solved -- those few appts that retain color do so because I set
them up with a Label, before I discovered Automatic Formatting. Adding the
eleventh rule just seems to break all the others.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Diane Poremsky said:
was the 11th rule coloring them gray?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/


LSK said:
I have been using Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2002 to impose a Label
color based on the Category assigned to a problem. I had 10 formats
working
for months, but when I added the eleventh today, suddenly MOST, but not
all,
of my previously variously-colored appts have gone gray. I cannot see
what
is common to the few that have retained color: they have different
categories, were entered at different times, etc. Any idea what's going
on?
Remember, this is Outlook 2002, SP 3. Not on a network, not using
Exchange.

Thanks.
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