Create and use categories in Office 365 for email messages and calendar events

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Create and use a category in Outlook 2016

1. For a message, meeting, task or person, click Categories in the Tags group

2. Click All Categories... to customise the category labels or colours.

 3. Click a category to assign it to an item.

 eg. a message

eg. an event

Create and use a category in OWA

1. For a message, meeting, task or person, right click the item and assign the category.

2. The category colour bar and label will be displayed

eg. for a message: as a short vertical coloured bar under the header.

eg. for a message: as a short vertical coloured bar in the message list

NOTE:  More than one category can be assigned.