Do you know a way to manage sub-Tasks in Outlook?

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Has anyone found a good way to manage SUB-Tasks in Outlook?

I.e. a way to manage certain tasks as sub-Tasks of another Task, similar to
the way Microsoft Project handles them, where all sub-Tasks must be complete
in order for the main Task to be considered complete.

Thanks for whatever advice you can provide.

Victor Schwartz
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each parent task.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)

Please don't cross post! I just wasted my time answering this in the other
newsgroup for you.


Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au


"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
Wilson)
One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each parent
task.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You mean multi-post, right?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:

| Please don't cross post! I just wasted my time answering this in the
| other newsgroup for you.
|
|
| Judy Gleeson
| MVP Outlook
| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
| www.acorntraining.com.au
|
|
| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
| Wilson)
| | One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each
| parent task.
|
|
| || Has anyone found a good way to manage SUB-Tasks in Outlook?
||
|| I.e. a way to manage certain tasks as sub-Tasks of another Task,
|| similar to
|| the way Microsoft Project handles them, where all sub-Tasks must be
|| complete
|| in order for the main Task to be considered complete.
||
|| Thanks for whatever advice you can provide.
||
|| Victor Schwartz
||
|| --
|| Please include (e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) in your
|| reply.
 
J

Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)

steer me to a definition of the difference and then I'll know. So far I
know that I answered him, then got to this page and found Sue had also
answered him.


Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au


"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
Wilson)
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
You mean multi-post, right?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:

| Please don't cross post! I just wasted my time answering this in the
| other newsgroup for you.
|
|
| Judy Gleeson
| MVP Outlook
| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
| www.acorntraining.com.au
|
|
| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
| Wilson)
| | One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each
| parent task.
|
|
| || Has anyone found a good way to manage SUB-Tasks in Outlook?
||
|| I.e. a way to manage certain tasks as sub-Tasks of another Task,
|| similar to
|| the way Microsoft Project handles them, where all sub-Tasks must be
|| complete
|| in order for the main Task to be considered complete.
||
|| Thanks for whatever advice you can provide.
||
|| Victor Schwartz
||
|| --
|| Please include (e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) in your
|| reply.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

From the DTS goodpost list:

Crossposting:
Avoid cross-posting, unless your problem clearly fits the category of more than one group.

Multi-posting
Never post separate identical messages to several newsgroups. This wastes respondents' time, and may result in you being ignored.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:

| steer me to a definition of the difference and then I'll know. So
| far I know that I answered him, then got to this page and found Sue
| had also answered him.
|
|
| Judy Gleeson
| MVP Outlook
| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
| www.acorntraining.com.au
|
|
| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
| Wilson)
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | You mean multi-post, right?
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:
|
|| Please don't cross post! I just wasted my time answering this in the
|| other newsgroup for you.
||
||
|| Judy Gleeson
|| MVP Outlook
|| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
|| www.acorntraining.com.au
||
||
|| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
|| (Woodrow Wilson)
|| || One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each
|| parent task.
||
||
|| ||| Has anyone found a good way to manage SUB-Tasks in Outlook?
|||
||| I.e. a way to manage certain tasks as sub-Tasks of another Task,
||| similar to
||| the way Microsoft Project handles them, where all sub-Tasks must be
||| complete
||| in order for the main Task to be considered complete.
|||
||| Thanks for whatever advice you can provide.
|||
||| Victor Schwartz
|||
||| --
||| Please include (e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) in your
||| reply.
 
D

David Biddulph

To clarify the difference, for Judy's benefit, try
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html or
http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html
--
David Biddulph

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
From the DTS goodpost list:

Crossposting:
Avoid cross-posting, unless your problem clearly fits the category of more
than one group.

Multi-posting
Never post separate identical messages to several newsgroups. This wastes
respondents' time, and may result in you being ignored.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:

| steer me to a definition of the difference and then I'll know. So
| far I know that I answered him, then got to this page and found Sue
| had also answered him.
|
|
| Judy Gleeson
| MVP Outlook
| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
| www.acorntraining.com.au
|
|
| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
| Wilson)
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | You mean multi-post, right?
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) asked:
|
|| Please don't cross post! I just wasted my time answering this in the
|| other newsgroup for you.
||
||
|| Judy Gleeson
|| MVP Outlook
|| Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
|| www.acorntraining.com.au
||
||
|| "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
|| (Woodrow Wilson)
|| || One solution is to use categories. Use a different category for each
|| parent task.
||
||
|| ||| Has anyone found a good way to manage SUB-Tasks in Outlook?
|||
||| I.e. a way to manage certain tasks as sub-Tasks of another Task,
||| similar to
||| the way Microsoft Project handles them, where all sub-Tasks must be
||| complete
||| in order for the main Task to be considered complete.
|||
||| Thanks for whatever advice you can provide.
|||
||| Victor Schwartz
|||
||| --
||| Please include (e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) in your
||| reply.
 

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