Creating tasks from email in Outlook 2007

I suspect that many of you use the Tasks feature in Outlook to managed your daily to-do list. I use Outlook to manage my to-do list, and I schedule and complete so many tasks each week that I’ve found that small short-cuts really boost my productivity and save time.

I often receive emails that I want to turn into tasks. This used to be a very manual cut-and-paste process for me until I recently learned a faster way to convert email to tasks. This video demonstrates the short-cut I learned; I hope you find it useful!

Mike Cooch

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6 Responses to “Creating tasks from email in Outlook 2007”

  1. NightVisions says on December 16th, 2010 at 2:53 pm :

    Exactly the info I was looking for and the most truly helpful tip I have found in some time now. I was looking for a plug-in to handle this out of shear frustration amd am very pleased to see one is not needed. (Yes, I live in Outlook.)

    Thank you so much!

  2. Caro Morgan says on March 10th, 2011 at 11:25 am :

    Nice one!
    I didn’t realise one could do that – I’ll use Tasks a lot more, now that I know.
    Thank you :)

  3. Michael Booker says on March 14th, 2011 at 2:39 pm :

    That’s what we are here for! Thanks for the comment.

  4. Zev Asch says on June 24th, 2011 at 9:31 am :

    Great video mike. What type of program were you using to create this?

  5. Zulma Badini says on December 13th, 2011 at 3:49 pm :

    You have a lot of useful pointers on this site. This is a well composed article that I have bookmarked for future reading. Have a fun.

  6. Melinda Helsley says on February 25th, 2012 at 2:56 pm :

    Mike,

    Great tip! This will really help me in the future!

    Thanks,
    Melinda

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