Could you try again from the beginning? Start by telling your version of
Outlook, what you are looking at and what exactly you are doing (steps to
reproduce).
My guess is that you have marked a message for follow up. Simply mark it as
complete or remove the flag altogether.
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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"kh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am not even sure how they got "associated" to begin with...
>
> But, I want to keep the email for reference and just delete the task.
> When
> I try to delete the task, I get a message saying "Deleting this item will
> also delete the email message. Do you want to continue?"