Understanding Tasks

Tasks can assist you in identifying, organizing, planning, and prioritizing your day-to-day activities. Outlook enables you to manage your own tasks as well as track the tasks you need to assign to other people. Few changes have been made to tasks in Outlook 2007, but if you have never used them before, you might be surprised how they can help you.

Tasks are different from appointments. Going to the doctor is an appointment. You schedule the visit for a specific date and time, and showing up at a different time isn’t usually acceptable. Renewing a library book is not an appointment. You don’t call the library staff and tell them you’ll be there at 2:30 p.m. on Friday to renew your book. You simply know that you need to renew ...

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