Comments on: Outlook Tip

By: James

James — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:19:18 +0000

Warning: You will not be able to assign tasks to others from a task sub folder.

By: Grateful

Grateful — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:07:18 +0000

thank you for the useful task list tidbit. You’ve made a difference for me.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:28:41 +0000

Yes and this can be a problem. I want to collaborate with others on these multiple task lists and I am not able to. Even if I share them, the other people cannot view them under Shared Tasks. Unless I am doing something wrong…..any ideas?

By: thee

thee — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:16:01 +0000

Apparently you just can’t. I guess it’s because Outlook doesn’t know if the person you assign the task to has the same task folder.

By: Juha Tuunanen

Juha Tuunanen — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:42:26 +0000

When trying to send the Task Request by Assigning it to someone, Outlook says:

“This task is not in your Tasks folder. The task will not be updated when you receive responses or updates unless you move it to your Tasks folder. Are you sure you want to continue?”

I’d like to keep separate task folders for each project and still be able to assign tasks. How to do that?

By: Juha Tuunanen

Juha Tuunanen — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:38:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Very useful. Except that I can’t assign tasks to others from any other task list than the original one. Do you have any solution to this?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:39:37 +0000

I knew there had to be a reason people had stopped writing Task Mgmt Software, Outlook had cornered the market.

So simple yet so powerful thanks for pointing this out. I feel rather daft for not figuring it out myself.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 May 2005 02:03:03 +0000

Yeah, it’s made a big impact on my productivity so far. I’m planning to write more about this.

By: Tommy Chapin

Tommy Chapin — Mon, 02 May 2005 19:39:53 +0000

oh neato! yeah I use the task list here at work but I didn’t know I could do multiple ones. cool!