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Removing Tasks and Items from Task Lists
When you complete a task or follow up on a flagged item, you have three options for
managing its presence on your task list: marking the task or flagged item as complete,
removing the flag from a flagged item, or deleting the task or flagged item entirely.
Marking a task or flagged item as complete retains a record of the item on your task list.
Completed tasks are visible only in certain task list views.
To mark a task as complete:
● In the Tasks module, click the task to make it active, and then on the Home tab, in
the Manage Task group, click the Mark Complete button.
● In views that include a check box preceding the task subject (most list views), select
the check box to delete the task.
● In views that include a colored flag, click the flag once.
● In any view, right-click the task, and then click Mark Complete.
● In the task window, change the Status to Completed or the % Complete setting
to 100%.
Whichever method you use, in your task list, the completed task is crossed through,
the Complete check box is selected, and the flag changes to a check mark. In the task
window for the completed task, Status is set to Completed and % Complete is set to
100%. (In other words, doing any one thing accomplishes all the others.)Completed tasks appear in certain views of your Tasks List but not in your To-Do List.After you mark an instance of a recurring task as complete, Outlook generates a new
instance of the task at whatever interval you specified when creating the task.
Removing the flag from a flagged item such as a message or contact record retains the
item in its original location but removes it from your task list entirely.