Journal or Calendar for Billable Hours?

[Guest]

Hi, I'm using Office '03. Our department has just been informed that we have
to keep track of all the time we spend on particular projects. I'm trying to
figure out how we can use Outlook to do this, I'm looking at the Journal and
Calendar. The Journal seems cumbersome for this purpose, I thought we could
create a Contact for each project, and then create appointments to represent
the hours spent working, and then view our hours in the Activities tab of the
project Contact record. Would this be the best way to do this, or am I
missing something? Thanks for your assistance, it is appreciated!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hi, I'm using Office '03. Our department has just been informed that
we have to keep track of all the time we spend on particular
projects.

This is not really Outook's forté. You can do some rudimentary time
tracking for tasks, though. Open a task and examine the Details tab.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The problem is getting any kind of useful report out of outlook. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/journal.htm for some ideas.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers