In Lotus Notes, I was able to create subcategories in particular for my contacts. For example, in Lotus Notes, if I entered “Personal\Family” and “Personal\Friends,” Lotus Notes organized Family and Friends as subcategories under the Personal category. Whether it’s contacts I’ve converted or a newly created contact, Outlook doesn’t interpret the backslash character (“\”) as a separation for nested categories. Instead “Personal\Family” and “Personal\Friends” exist as additional categories on the same level as the “Personal” category. If I view my contacts by category, and collapse everything, it would look like:
+Personal
+Personal\Family
+Personal\Friends
Alternatively, in Lotus Notes it would look more like:
-Personal
+Family
+Friends
Is there a special character in Outlook that would provide the same functionality? Or is it just not possible to have subcategories within Outlook contacts?
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