How to make tasks from other folders appear on outlook home page

[Guest]

I am supervising a number of projects which each have a large list of tasks.
To make the individual lists easier to maintain, I created tasks folders for
each project. Unfortunately the task list on the homepage (quite useful I
think) only show tasks from the actual 'task' folder and there does not seem
to be a way to include any other folders (like for messages).

Can somebody help me out here with a tip or explaining how to organise tasks
more efficiently. Grouping tasks by projects and sub-projects seems to get
confusing and overwhelming very fast.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook]

Make each Project a Category.

Tailor the Master Category list to reflect your projects. eg Weed
Reduction, Staff Issues, Payroll.

Now many Tasks can fall in the one Category. When you make a Task, set a
Category for it ( bottom right corner of the Task).

Use the Tasks folder (just the main one) and learn to tailor your By
Category view to show the data you need. Do this by:

Turn on Advanced Toolbars, click the Group By Box and Field Chooser buttons.
Select the By Category view in the Current View window (from that Advanced
toolbar)

Add Fields to the screen by dragging them from the Field Chooser and
dropping them beside the existing column headers. You can use the Group By
Box to Group by any Column Headers. So you can group by Category, then by
Priority by having Category in the Group By Box and dragging Priority (!
icon) up beside it.

I hope this helps!!









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Canberra, Australia


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