Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac®

Working with Appointments and Tasks

Display Only

Incomplete Tasks

You can make the Tasks list easier to navigate and your

pending tasks easier to view by configuring the Tasks list

to display only incomplete tasks. This is particularly

useful if you have a long list of completed and pending

tasks, because it enables you to focus on just those tasks

that remain to be done.

1 Click the Tasks button ( ).

You can also switch to the Tasks

window by pressing + .

2 Click View.

3 Click Incomplete Tasks.

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Entourage displays only your

incomplete tasks in the Tasks list.

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You can also click the Task Views

( changes to ) and then

click Incomplete.

Display Only Incomplete Tasks

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TASK START FINISH

1. Buy Jon’s

present

Oct. 1, 2009 Oct. 29, 2009

2. Send invitations Oct. 1, 2009 Oct. 5 , 2009

3. Buy party

supplies

Oct. 1, 2009 Oct. 15, 2009

4. Make cake Oct. 28, 2009 Oct.29, 2009

5. DecorateOct. 29, 2009 Oct.29, 2009

6. Cleaup Oct. 30, 2009 Oct. 30, 2009

Completed

Completed

Completed

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22

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Entourage adds strikethrough

formatting to the task text.

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Entourage inserts the current date

and time in the Completed Date

field.

1 Click the Tasks button ( ).

You can also switch to the Tasks

window by pressing + .

2 Select the check box beside the

finished task ( changes to ).

Mark a Task as Complete

When you finish a task, you should mark it as

complete to keep your list of tasks up-to-date

and to avoid accidentally repeating a task.

Mark a Task

as Complete