Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

732 Chapter 24 Track Tasks

Declined task Task management options

When an assignee declines a task, you can reclaim or reassign it.

2. In the Manage Task group, click the Return To Task List button to reclaim the task,
   or the Assign Task button to reassign it.

Tasks Other People Assign to You.

When another person assigns a task to you, you receive a task assignment request.

To accept, decline, respond to, or reassign a task assignment request:

1. Open the task assignment request (indicated in your Inbox by a task icon with an
   outstretched hand).
   The Task tab of the ribbon includes commands specific to managing the task
   assignment request.
   Assigned task Task response options

You can respond in several ways to a task assignment.