I can't find this, how to change the categories of contacts?
 

I have figured out how to change quite a bit since I got my Treo a week ago, but I still can't find a solution to changing the Categories of contacts. I'm sure is a reg edit, but where and what? I mean the categories, like Friend, Family, etc. I can add them, but how to delete/modify the names. Thanks in advance, you guys here are super helpful. :)

just select the contact...then press menu...then edit...then scroll down to where it says no category click on that will bring up business...family...etc then press new...will bring up a window allowing you to add a new category....once typed press done and whammy!!!

right, but how do I change what the categories are. I know how to change for the individual contacts, but I want to rename the categories.

Ie - "Seasonal" to misc.
or "Business" to "Whatever" , etc, etc

i dont think that you can change them, at least i havent figured out how. i would suggest just creating new ones

go to contact
click edit
go to categories
click on it
and chose New

double post

Thanks, but if you read my original post I said that I know how to add new ones, I want to know how to change the ones that palm gives you standard. I pose the question again, does anyone know a registry hack to change the names of the palm assigned categories?
Thanks

Palm did not create those, they are standard from Outlook and Pocket Outlook, so MS created them. I think there's no way to delete/edit them, at least I have not been able to found any.

Have you tried to edit them in outlook? Then sync it afterwards?

So far no go, if its MS you would think there would be some way to change them, we can change just about everything else :lol:

I have MS Office XP with Outlook. I synced my contacts, including categories. You cannot change/rename a category, but you can delete and add another one. It's also allot easier to mass change contacts to a particular category. When completed, sync back up to your Treo.