Categories in Outlook 2007 can be associated with colors. If you don't want the colors, don't use them.

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"ash_liz" wrote in message ...
i'm sorry i don't know what *your terms* are. i explained exactly what my
"list" is (or so i thought). just please tell me how to "assign a Category
to a Contact the same way you did in all previous versions of Outlook." i
was not in charge of assigning categories to contacts until after 2007 was
installed, and the only way i can see to assign categories here is with the
color codes, which is not what i want.