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Hello, because I often miss all of the tasks I have to do I wanted to automate some things in outlook. Every time I have to do something new I get an email in a standardized form. I would like to have a macro that automatically takes the Mail with a specific subject, copies a specific part of...

Is there a better way than creating a new retention policy in Microsoft 365 to keep Tasks from archiving? Creating a retention policy as per Microsoft recommendation requires manually setting archive/retention for each folder and any future new folders. I also get complaints that users can't...

When I change a flag to "This Week", it sets a due date of Friday and a start date of two days from today. So, if it is Monday, setting a task to "This Week" will set a start date of Wednesday. I'd rather "This Week" flag choose a start date of "Tomorrow." Is there any way to change this...

Hi there, I am trying to create a tasklist in outlook where I would like to have a column where I can add text which supports multiple lines (this shall work for flagged emails and manually added tasks). I was only able to add a custom column which supports one line only. Is this possible? If...

Hello, I can't accept or decline tasks that are sent to me. I don't even see the button. Also my message looks weird. However I can send task to the same person and everything is ok.

Daily Task List Minimized Cannot Display After years of using the Daily Task List (set by Start Date) at the foot of my Calendar, I cannot get it to display as Normal. When I click on the arrow to the right of the Daily List, it does not respond. It is it also not responsive when I click on...

Hello, I have several Office 365 accounts (different organizations / different domains) in Outlook 2016 (32bit). Within each account I 'm member of several Groups 365 with their coresponding Sharepoint sites and with Task apps added. I connected Sharepoint Tasks belonging to each account and...

I have been extensively using tasks in Outlook for years and typically have been using different Views, recently I have been using an HTML page inside Outlook to give some different combined views, like putting tasks in an Eisenhauser Matrix. This seems to be working pretty well; however, I...

I use tasks extensively. I use custom fields and I use: Grouping, Sorting, Conditional Formatting, and Filtering, to customize my task lists. Grouping, Sorting, Conditional Formatting, and Filtering are usually available by right clicking on the column headers and selecting View Settings in...

Hello Diane, I am using Microsoft's new To-Do app on my Android phone. It syncs my tasks with my Outlook 2016 account beautifully! It also allows me to make "lists" of tasks on my phone which appear as task folders in Outlook. My question is: Is there a way in Outlook 2016 to create a view that...

Hi all I love Outlook Tasks. I customize the list view all sorts of ways to suit my needs and run it alongside my calendar to great effect. The only thing that has continued to bug me in not being able to edit in the reading pane - is there still no solution to this? And now a new desire...

When I'm setting up a new job (we do numerous jobs a month) I have a list of tasks which are created need to be assigned all at once to a single individual. So say there's 10 tasks, can they all be assigned at once to a single person...? Is there a way to assign all those tasks together to a...

I love the Next 7 Days view in Tasks. However, I wish it also listed any other tasks that were due before today that are still incomplete. How do I set this up in the Manage Views? I tried entering the following in the Advanced Tab, but it didn't work: Status not equal to Completed Due Date on...

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Create a Task when a Message is Flagged Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

I know that I can link tasks to OneNote. The problem is that the body text of the task is not copied to OneNote. For us this is a must as I do not want to switch over all the time to OneNote (especially during travel/with customers). Printing is an option but, it only prints an image which...

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Assign one task to several people Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Automatically create a task when sending a message Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Create a Series of Tasks using VBA Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com

I'm using the web version of Office 365 and I can't find a way to search for a task or create a new filter. What am I missing? Here's a screen shot:

I have an Outlook 2013 Task folder which sync's with a SharePoint List. Sometimes when that SharePoint List is updated (primarily via MS Project 2013 Pro which also sync's to the same SharePoint List) the tasks duplicate in the Outlook Task list view. After some investigation I have found...