Outlook 2016 For Dummies

Chapter 9

Task Mastery: Discovering All the Bells and Whistles

In This Chapter

Entering a new task

Changing, copying, and deleting tasks

Creating recurring and regenerating tasks

Completing tasks — what a concept!

Using views to control your tasks

You can store and manage more information about your daily tasks in Outlook than you may have wanted to know, but you’ll certainly find that Outlook makes it easy to remember and monitor your daily work. Organizing your tasks doesn’t have to be a task in and of itself.

Some people say that work expands to fill the available time — and chances are that your boss is one of those people. (Who else would keep expanding your work to fill your available time?) One way of saving time is to keep a list of the tasks that fill your time. That way, you can avoid getting too many more tasks to do.

I used to scrawl a to-do list on paper and hope I’d find the list in time to do everything I had written down. Now Outlook pops up and reminds me about the ...