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You can remove a color category from a message in a message list (message list: The middle part of the main Outlook window that displays the contents of the selected folder.), such as the Inbox, or from within the open message.

Removing a color category from a message removes it only from that item; it does not delete the color category from the main color category list. In some views, you can select multiple messages at the same time and remove a color category from them.

• Remove a color category from a message in a message list

• Remove a color category from an open message

Remove a color category from a message in a message list

Do one of the following:

• Remove all the color categories from a message

  • Right-click the item that you want, click Categorize on the shortcut menu, and then click Clear All Categories.

• Remove specific color categories from a message

  1. Right-click the item, click Categorize on the shortcut menu, and then click All Categories.
  2. Clear the check boxes for the color categories that you want to remove.

 Tip   To quickly remove a single color category, click the Category column next to the message. If only one color category is assigned to the message, the category is removed. If more than one category is assigned to the message, and you have set a Quick Click category (Quick Click category: A default color category that is assigned to an item when you click the Categories column for the item in your Inbox or other table view. You set this color category from the Categorize menu.), the Quick Click category is removed.

 Notes 

• To select multiple messages that are next to each other in the list, click the first message, and then hold down SHIFT while you click the last message.
• To select multiple messages that are not next to each other, hold down CTRL while you click each of the messages.

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Remove a color category from an open message

Do one of the following:

• Remove all the color categories from an open message

• In the header of the message, right-click any color category, and then click Clear All Categories.

• Remove a specific color category from an open message

  • In the header of the message, right-click the color category, and then click Clear color category name.

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