Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Assigning Tasks to Others

In addition to creating tasks for yourself in Outlook 2007, you can also assign tasks to others. For example, you might manage a staff of several people and frequently need to assign them projects or certain tasks in a project. The main benefit of using Outlook 2007 to assign those tasks is that you can receive status reports on assigned tasks and view these status reports in your Tasks folder. Outlook 2007 automates the process of sending task requests and processing responses to those requests. You’ll learn more about assigning tasks in the sections that follow. First, however, you need to understand task ownership.

About Task Ownership

When you create a task, you initially own that task. Only a task’s owner can make ...