Outlook Answer Book, The: Useful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Microsoft Outlook® 2003

Organizing Tasks

8.41. How Do I Assign Categories to Tasks?

You can assign categories to tasks in a number of ways:

• When creating a new task, you can assign it categories by clicking the Categories button near the bottom of the Task form and selecting the categories from the dialog box that appears.

• If the task already exists and is closed, right-click it and select Categories from the context menu that appears.

• If the task already exists and is open, click the Categories button near the bottom and select the categories from the dialog box that appears.

Regardless of which method you use, you are presented with the Categories dialog box, as shown in Figure 8-12. To assign a category to the task, simply place a check in the option for that category ...