How can I display categories in Outlook's sidebar?
The sidebar in Microsoft Outlook 2010 displays a list of user-created email folders. I rarely use folders in Outlook, as I find organizing my inbox using categories to be much simpler.
Is it possible to display a list of categories on the sidebar in Outlook?
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You can create custom search folders based on categories to organize emails. Not sure how efficient this is with a large amount of mail.
Use one of the following to create custom search folder:
Under the Folder tab in Outlook, click New Search Folder
Use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+P
In the sidebar of the folder hierarchy, you should have a folder called Search Folders, right click on it to get the New Search Folder option
Here is the Microsoft documentation on creating them for Outlook 2010.
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