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Vincenzo Annunziata
Nov 02, 2016Iron Contributor
Categories in OWA
In Outlook desktop I can use the Categories (colours and descriptions) and I can create "Smart Folders" that grouped messages for category. In OWA I can assign a category, I can manage the categorie...
Nov 02, 2016
it would be nice if the business side had the same category feature that is on the consumer side - it more or less works the way Vincenzo wants. (Outlook.com gets all the cool stuff.)
- Vincenzo AnnunziataNov 03, 2016Iron Contributor
uhm... the business version of Outlook for Mac had this feature, in OWA there's the possibility to assign a category and then?
Why in OWA I can assign categories?
What is their function?- Victor_UngureanuNov 03, 2016
Microsoft
You can use search in OWA to find emails categorized with a certain category. For example you can search for this: category:="Yellow Category"- Sean BurnsNov 08, 2017Copper Contributor
This worked for me, but without equal sign after colon. I typed the following into the O365 search
category:"New Project Ideas"
making sure the Category Name was an exact string match.