Displaying contents of more than 1 task folder in the calendar pane of Outlook 2003?

[M Wells]

Hi All,

I'm wondering if it's possible to show the contents of more than 1
task folder in the calendar pane of Outlook 2003?

To keep track of various projects, I've created sub-task folders in
which I keep the tasks related to just that project.

However, I'd like to be able to view a 'master list' of the tasks I
have outstanding.

I know I can probably gather them all together in an Advanced Search,
but was hoping there was a solution that didn't require me to
proactively go looking for all the tasks.

For the same reason, I was a little disappointed that you don't seem
to be able to create a search folder for tasks.

Any help will be very appreciated!

Much warmth,

Murray
Much warmth,

Murray
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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. Have you thought about using categories instead of subfolders?

Search folders are for mail items only. If you often use the same or similar
Advanced Finds you can save the OSS file and copy it to any Outlook folder
for easy access (drop it in the Tasks folder for example). Double click on
it to open, make whatever changes to the search and go...

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[M Wells]

No. Have you thought about using categories instead of subfolders?

Search folders are for mail items only. If you often use the same or similar
Advanced Finds you can save the OSS file and copy it to any Outlook folder
for easy access (drop it in the Tasks folder for example). Double click on
it to open, make whatever changes to the search and go...

Hi Diane,

Honestly, I think Categories are a non-intuitive way of organising
tasks at a meta-level. Good for organising tasks at a more granular
level, but an annoying step to have to take if you want to bang off
say 10 ten tasks in a row, all related to the same 'project'. Using
folders, I simply go to the folder and start adding. Using categories,
each task I create I have to manually assign to the appropriate
category.

This is only my work process, though -- I imagine others are perfectly
comfortable using categories in this way. I just get annoyed with the
need to go 'click, scroll, select, ok' for each and every task to
assign it to the category relating to the project.

Much warmth,

Murray