Categories provide a useful way of classifying pieces of information. For example, you may wish to categorise contacts and companies into 'potential customers', 'existing customers' and 'old customers' and then have a way of searching any record by category. Alternatively, you may wish to have a wider category definition such as 'Personal' or 'Business' and then use these categories to classify any piece of information in OfficeTalk. Again, you may then wish to search the entire database for any personal information.
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Searching for Data by Category