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... I had all but given up on finding a solution and resolved myself to wait until my laptop is upgraded... I just happend to glance back in here today and lo.... Tom, I think you've got it!!! I'll...

Santa stole my early present (see previous post). All the magical trick did is save my colors but not make the custom categories available in the master list.

I am once again category-less :(
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Browsing through the microsoft community forums I think I've found the solution. (I'm tentative because we've thought we've fixed it before, only to find my custom categories disappear again).
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I've just upgraded to outlook 2010, and since the upgrade every time I reboot my laptop my custom categories disappear and are replaced by the "red / green / blue" default categories. It looks like...

Holy Cow!

It works like a charm!!

You've made me a very VERY happy person!! (Plus I'm smacking myself in the forehead for not asking the question here in the first place)

Well that's a bummer, but at least now I know to stop searching for a solution!!

Thanks Kelly!!

I'd like to customize the list of current views that appears in the left menu navigation in "tasks" in outlook 2007.

Some of them I just never use - such as "task timeline", "assignment" and "by...