Restore Outlook to a previous date/time?

[akwit]

Buddy of mine went into contacts and selected a large group of people and added a category designation to the group.
What he didnt know was that that would erase the category assignments he had for each individual contact, previously.

Is there any way to undo this above action and/or restore Outlook to a previous time/date?

[Greg]

Unless you have a backup of the PST file from making backups of your data, no. Outlook doesn't have an 'undo' mechanism like this.

[akwit]

Unless you have a backup of the PST file from making backups of your data, no. Outlook doesn't have an 'undo' mechanism like this.

Greg-dont most people automatically have a PST file on their desktop that they can access?

My buddy is running Outlook on a work server; does that change anything?

[morris29]

Try to use outlook recovery tool corrupted .pst files.

Software displays the table of restored emails, folders, contacts, notes, journals, meetings.