How to create an Outlook rule to assign a category to emails from contacts that have a specific category assigned?

Question

How can I create an rule in Outlook which does the following when an email arrives:

1. Check if the sender is in my contacts
2. Check if the contact has a specific category (e.g. Work) assigned
3. Assign that (Work) or maybe some other category (e.g. Important) to the email

I've already accomplished 1 and 3 but I have no idea how to make 2 happen. Is it even possible?

Answer 1

As I'm afraid there is no way to do this, the easier would be to create several Contacts folders, one per category.

Create a new folder (CTRL+SHIFT+E), indicating it will contain "Contact Items". Name it with the name of the category, "Contacts - Work" for instance. Create as many as needed.

Create as many rules as you have contacts folders, to assign the correct category to contacts for the specific contact folder.