How to export Outlook categories

[terrassa5]

I've created a big list of categories in Outlook (categories for tasks and calendar events), but is very easy to accidentally click button "restore" (or something similar, my Outlook is in Spanish) and delete all my categories and restore original ones.

Is there any way of doing a backup or an export of categories?

Thank you very much

 

[terrassa5]

I've done some tests and list of categories is not on pst file not in Exchange mailbox setup.

I copy pst from one computer with categories list modified in Outlook to another computer and I setup same Exchange mailbox, but modified categories list does not appear in new computer.

I don't know where Outlook saves this information. Can you help me?

 

[terrassa5]

Finally I've found the solution. You can save your custom Outlook categories by exporting a registry key.

Outlook 2000
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Categories

Outlook 2002
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Categories

Outlook 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories

Right click on the Categories folder and choose Export.