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Category colors in Outlook changed on upgrade to 64-bit
Had Windows 7 for too long, upgrades to Windows 10 then Office Apps and Outlook upgrade right after, but it installed 32-bit office. Migrated to a new Exchange hosting provider and simultaneously...
- Found the solution. In lefthand pane, on the name of the calendar, right-click and change Color, which is the default color for all items in that calendar which were not assigned a Category/color. In the past, it was gray. It became blue, which I use for a certain Category. I changed it there to gray and that changed all items in the calendar that didn't have a Category assigned back to gray.
Found the solution. In lefthand pane, on the name of the calendar, right-click and change Color, which is the default color for all items in that calendar which were not assigned a Category/color. In the past, it was gray. It became blue, which I use for a certain Category. I changed it there to gray and that changed all items in the calendar that didn't have a Category assigned back to gray.
This ability to specify the default color for un-Categorized calendar items can help tell which calendar the given items belong to when viewing multiple overlayed calendars, but it seems one would have to be very deliberate about assigning different Category colors for certain uses in the various calendars or the benefit of different colors for un-Categorized items will be useless.