Posts Tagged 'Start Date'

2 Quick Methods to Merge Multiple Tasks into a Single One in Your Outlook

Sometimes, you may need to merge multiple tasks into a single task. In the new task, the body contains all the bodies of all the source tasks and start date is the earliest date among all dates of the tasks and so on. Now, this article will teach you 2 ways. When dealing with multiple Outlook tasks which are correlative to each other, you may want to directly merge them into one task. And the new merged task should include all the source tasks' bodies and uses the earliest date among all...

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How to Auto Preset Today as the Start Date of a New Task in Your Outlook

When creating a new task in Outlook, if you frequently need to set today as its start date, you must wish Outlook to auto accomplish it. This article will look at this requirement to provide an easy method. By default, when you click create a new task in your Outlook, the task will display with "Start date" set to "None", as shown in the following figure. However, more often than not, you're accustomed to setting the start date to the current date. So, you have to manually input or select...

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How to Quickly Group Tasks by the Month of Start Date in Your Outlook

By default, there isn’t the “Month of Start Date” field for Outlook tasks. Therefore, if you want to group your tasks by the month of the start date, you should seek other means, like the method introduced in this article. Outlook permits users to group tasks by the start date. However, since the tasks’ start dates are seldom on the same date, the task list will be divided into a lot of groups, which may look pretty mussy. Therefore, instead of “Start Date”, you may prefer to group tasks by...

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