How do I change the sort order of flag colors in Outlook?

[busymgr]

I would like to have the flagged messages sort in order from "hot" to "cold"
- such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, instead of the default
order in Outlook. Does anyone know how to change? Thanks.

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

Do you have OL07? With that you could use color categories and sort by
whatevery you want.

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: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
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[orangepotatocasserole]

I'm having the same problem as bsymgr, but I have Outlook 2007. I would like
to sort my task list first by due date and then by category. I have name my
categories something like as follows:

-21 Case Work
-22 Housing
-23 Contact
-24 Follow Up

They are in a nice rainbow order which is easy enough for me to drag and
place where I want within a specific day, but I would like Outlook to do this
automatically.

When I do custom sort, "Categories" is not in any available fields. There
is a "Category" field, but that is different.

Any suggestions?

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

You can't sort by categories but would have to group by categories instead.

Probably an usual view but have you tried to group first by due date, sort
that, and then group by categories?

--
Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
: <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>

[m selden]

This is possible in Outlook 2007. The default setting for the category colors is red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple. If you want to organize your categories from hot to cold (or rainbow order)?that is, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple?then you need to assign your categories names in alphbetical or numerical order. The same logic that applies to naming folders in Windows also works here. For example, if you have three categories named "Assignments," "Brochures," and "Capital," then it doesn't matter what color category you assign these items. They will always appear in this order because it is alphabetical. But if you want them to appear in a different order, then put a number in front of them. Say you want "Brochures" to appear first, "Capital" second, and "Assignments" third. Name your categories as "1 Brochures," "2 Capital," and "3 Assignments." The categories will sort by name and you can therefore switch up the order of the category colors.

>> On Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:06 PM Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

>> Do you have OL07? With that you could use color categories and sort by
>> whatevery you want.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>>
>>
>>
>>

>> Am Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:37:42 -0700 schrieb busymgr:
>>

>> "cold"

>>> On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:16 PM orangepotatocasserol wrote:

>>> I'm having the same problem as bsymgr, but I have Outlook 2007. I would like
>>> to sort my task list first by due date and then by category. I have name my
>>> categories something like as follows:
>>>
>>> -21 Case Work
>>> -22 Housing
>>> -23 Contact
>>> -24 Follow Up
>>>
>>> They are in a nice rainbow order which is easy enough for me to drag and
>>> place where I want within a specific day, but I would like Outlook to do this
>>> automatically.
>>>
>>> When I do custom sort, "Categories" is not in any available fields. There
>>> is a "Category" field, but that is different.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

>>>> On Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:15 PM Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

>>>> You can't sort by categories but would have to group by categories instead.
>>>>
>>>> Probably an usual view but have you tried to group first by due date, sort
>>>> that, and then group by categories?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>>>>
>>>> : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
>>>> : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
>>>> : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:16:01 -0700 schrieb orangepotatocasserole:
>>>>

>>>> like
>>>> my
>>>> this
>>>> default

[Jack Toff]

HoopleHead Alert!

Did you even bother to look at the date of the post you were replying
to? August 2008? Do you really think the OP is coming back after all
these years? Where on earth did you learn how to use a newsgroup?

>>>>> : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis& Reporting

[swiss...@gmail.com]

New issue in current Outlook2016/Office 365 with Win10:
The sorting possibility (e.g. with numbers at the beginning) functionned in earier years, yes.
Now since 2017 Outlook "produces2 only partly logic sort and mixes with far differently-valued categories, and this with changing appearance.
Does anyone know how to fix this and enable again (number-) sort-driven, stable appearance? Thanks.