Right click on Arrange By: to access the menu. You can customize the task list in the peek too. Sort of revolutionizing how I handle tasks now!! Your workaround is fairly good!! You can configure the sidebar and then drag and drop items from there to either daily tasks under each day or as actual meetings. Customize the view using the same options you have in any other folder.Ī comment by the person who originally asked the question that led to this article: To customize the view in the docked Tasks peek, right click on Arrange By at the top of the tasks then choose View settings. To dock it, open the Task peek and click the Dock icon in the upper right, or right click on the Task icon and choose Dock the peek. There is one option that might suffice: dock the Task peek to create a To-Do Bar then customize the view in the To-Do Bar pane. (Arrange By is also accessible from the Daily Tasks List button on the View ribbon.) You can access this (very limited) menu with a right click on the Show tasks on: row or in an empty area of the Task List.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to change this view the choices are limited to sort by start or due date, and show (or not show) completed tasks. (You can change it to show tasks on their due date instead.)
This opens a small task pane at the bottom of the calendar, displaying the tasks that Start on that date. If you’re not familiar with the Task List, you can enable it when the Calendar is in Day or Week views by going to the View tab, Daily Tasks List, and selecting Normal. Currently you can drag and drop to sort the order, but that's not much use if you can't see the priority of the task! weekly view mode) and sort the tasks in that list (e.g. task priority) in the task section of calendar view (in e.g. In Outlook 2007 and older, it’s at Tools, Macro Security.Īfter you test the macro and see that it works, you can either leave macro security set to low or sign the macro.An Outlook user had a question about the Task List that appears at the bottom of the Day or Week calendar view: To check your macro security in Outlook 2010 or 2013, go to File, Options, Trust Center and open Trust Center Settings, and change the Macro Settings. StrSubject = dDate & " " & strOriginalSubjectįirst: You will need macro security set to low during testing. ' each task is using the date of the previous task to calculate To create more than five tasks, change the value in the i = 1 to 5 line and add additional Cases.ĭim strOriginalSubject As String, strSubject As String
HOW TO BEGIN A LIST OF TASKS IN OUTLOOK SERIES
See Create a Series of Tasks Leading up to an Appointment for an example. With some minor tweaking, it could base the start and end times off of the original task date. For example, Task # 3 (created by the Case 2 statements) starts 4 days after the previous task, which started 2 days after the first task. Each subsequent task is based on the task before it. Updated Decemto handle a large number of tasks more efficiently. Create a series of tasks based on one task To make it easier to use, assign a toolbar or QAT button to the macro. To use, select the master task (or appointment) and run the macro. Once you are satisfied with the code, you can change the subject field as necessary. The subject in my example includes the date of the task because it makes it easier to see that it is working. If you need to create a large number of tasks or skip weekends and holidays, it will be easier to create the tasks (or appointments) in Excel and Import them into Outlook or use a utility from the Tools section below.
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