Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating Tasks from Other Outlook Items

All Outlook items can be created using a quick and powerful technique called AutoCreate. You can take items from any Outlook folder and drag them to your Tasks folder to easily create a task item. AutoCreate takes the information from the original item and populates a new task form with that information.

A typical example of using AutoCreate is to create a task from an email message. Drag the email message from your inbox and drop it on the Navigation Pane's Task icon. Figure 14.25 shows a task created using AutoCreate.

Figure 14.25. A task created from an email message inherits the header and body of that email message.

As you can see, the task inherits the subject of the email message, and the entire ...