Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

742 Chapter 24 Track Tasks

Finding and Organizing Tasks

You can use the Outlook 2010 Search feature to quickly locate tasks by searching

on any text in the task or in a file attached to the task. Type the word or other in-

formation you want to find in the Search box at the top of the Tasks pane header,

in any view. Outlook filters the tasks as you type, displaying only those containing

the search criteria you enter, and highlighting the matching criteria in the tasks.

You can modify your search by using the tools on the contextual Search tab.

To help you organize your tasks, you can assign them to color categories in the

same way that you do any other Outlook item.

If your task list gets too big, or if you want to maintain separate task lists for different

purposes, you can organize tasks into separate folders. To create a task folder:

1. On the Folder tab, in the New group, click the New Folder button.


2. In the Create New Folder dialog box, enter the name and select the location
   of the folder.


3. In the Folder Contains list, click Task Items, and then click OK.
   You can then drag existing tasks into the folder.
   Tip If you drag a task into a Mail, Calendar, Contact, or Note Items folder, a message,
   meeting, contact, or note window opens with the task’s subject entered in the Subject
   field and details of the task in the message body or notes pane.