Managing Your Tasks

Managing Your Tasks

As you work with tasks, you'll want to keep your Tasks folder updated to reflect the status of each task. One obvious tactic is to mark each task as completed once you've finished the task. To do this, you open the Task dialog box and then change the Status box to Completed or the % Complete box to 100%. Once you've marked a task as complete, it appears in the Tasks folder with a line through it. Some tasks are jobs that you need to complete on a regular basis. For example, you might need to submit a monthly report to a supervisor. You can make a task a recurring task by clicking the Recurrence button on the Standard toolbar. Recurring tasks have a small icon with two circling arrows in the Tasks folder.

Mark a Task as Completed

Double-click the task.

Click the Status list arrow, and then click Completed.

TIMESAVER In views with a Status column, click the Status column for the task, click the list arrow, and then click Completed.

Click the Save And Close button.

TIMESAVER In Simple List view, click the Complete check box.

Change a Task to Recurring

Double-click the task.

Click the Recurrence button on the Standard toolbar.

Click to select a Recurrence Pattern: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

Click to select other Recurrence options.

Click the appropriate end date in the Range Of Recurrence area.

Click Ok.

Click the Save And Close button.