Why doesn the Category Editor use a hierarchy?
The intended purpose of the Category Editor is to quickly edit categories that were previously assigned to Outlook items and it is not intended to be used for categorization. That is why Categorize Plus employs the drop down menus. It all comes down to speed. To categorize an item with multiple categories, the fastest way is to use the keyboard accelerators in the drop down menus and not the Category Editor. Please refer to the pervious FAQ that explains the use of keyboard accelerators. Typically I structure all of my menus using accelerators and then I never use the mouse. My hands become so fast that I can usually categorize an email with a dozen categories in under 2 seconds. After awhile you don’t even think about it and your hands just know what to press. Kind of like playing an instrument. If you were to try to accomplish this using the Category Editor, then you would first need to expand the hierarchy, then select the categories, then select save. Hence, the drop down menus are
