Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Link a Task to a Contact

Suppose, for example, that you offer to help someone write a report; in addition to creating a task entry for your To-Do list to remember to help with the report, you might also link the task to the contact entry for the person who needs your help. That way, when you open the task, your contact’s information is easily accessible.

Link a Task to a Contact

Link a Task to a Contact

1.	Create or open the task you want to link to a contact entry.
2.	Click Contacts. [View full size image] The Select Contacts dialog box appears.
3.	Click the contact you want to link to this task entry to select it.
4.	Click OK. [View full size image] A link to the contact entry is added to the task.
5.	Click Save & Close to close the task window. [View full size image]

Open a Linked Contact

1.	To open a linked contact from within a task, first open the task window.
2.	Click the contact link. Outlook opens the contact in its own window.
3.	To view the task from within the contact, ...