Outlook: Marking an Item with a Category

The MarkA and MarkB procedures both call the same MarkWithCategory procedure, but each assigns a different category to the selected item. You can make as many individual category macros like this as you need or even create a separate Categories toolbar to hold a toolbar button for each macro.

GetCurrentItem() is a function that returns either an item selected in a folder view or an individual open item. Thus, you can use the MarkA and MarkB procedures from either a folder or an item window. You can also reuse GetCurrentItem() in any macro that you write to work with a selected or open item.

The MarkWithCategory procedure always appends the new category to the existing Categories value for the item. It doesn't check whether the category is already present. I haven't experienced any problems with having a category listed twice, but you could refine the code to check the existing Categories value to see whether a category is already present before adding it.

The objItem.Categories = ... statement in MarkWithCategory assumes that you're in some part of the world that uses the comma as the default list separator. If you're in a country that uses the semicolon or other separator, you need to replace the comma with that separator.