Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Managing Tasks Effectively

Tasks are one of the Outlook 2007 features that many people overlook, spending their time instead primarily in the Inbox, Contacts, and Calendar folders. Nevertheless, tasks can be extremely useful and a powerful productivity and workflow tool. If you haven’t used tasks before, spend the time to become familiar with them. When you are comfortable using tasks, the following tips will help you make the most of them:

• Really use them. Tasks won’t do you much good if you just put a few on your task list and then don’t really use them. Instead, use tasks in Outlook 2007 for all of your daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. Make sure to set progress status as you go along and mark tasks as complete when you complete them.

• Use task ...