--- description: You may be reluctant to seeing the completed tasks in Task folders. Thus, this article will teach you how to let Outlook auto hide completed tasks. title: How to Auto Hide Completed Tasks in Your Outlook image: https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/view-filter.jpg --- - - - [Home](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/) > [Solutions](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/category/solutions/) > [Office Solutions](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/category/solutions/office-solutions/) > [Outlook Solutions](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/category/solutions/office-solutions/outlook-solutions/) > How to Auto Hide Completed Tasks in Your Outlook # How to Auto Hide Completed Tasks in Your Outlook [Outlook Solutions](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/category/solutions/office-solutions/outlook-solutions/) September 29, 2025 Share Now: - - - - - - - - *You may be reluctant to seeing the completed tasks in Task folders. Thus, this article will teach you how to let Outlook auto hide completed tasks.* In the default view for Outlook Task folder, the completed tasks are not hided. So, the Task folders are always stuffed with a great amount of completed tasks. Due to the fact that the completed tasks are not useful any longer to some extents, you may wish to configure Outlook to auto hide such tasks. To make items shown or not shown, the most convenient way is to set view filters. Now, in the followings, we will teach you how to create such a view filter to hide completed tasks step by step. ## Auto Hide Completed Tasks 1. For a start, launch Outlook as usual. 2. Then, access “Tasks” navigation pane. 3. Next, open a task folder. 4. After that, shift to “View” tab and click “View Settings” button. 5. In the subsequent “Advanced View Settings” dialog box, click “Filter” button.![View Filter](https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/view-filter.jpg "View Filter") 6. Next, you’ll get into “Filter” dialog box. 7. In it, switch to “Advanced” tab. 8. Then, click “Field” button and select “All Task fields” > “Complete”. 9. Later, ensure that “Condition” is “equals” and “Value” is “no”.![Complete Equals No]( "Complete Equals No") 10. Afterwards, click “Add to List” button to add this view filter. 11. Lastly, click a series of “OK” to save this filter. 12. After returning to the Task list, you can see that all the completed tasks have been hided.![Completed Tasks Are Hidden]( "Completed Tasks Are Hidden") **Note:** If you would like to auto hide completed tasks in other Task folder, you can apply the view to other folders by following the steps below. 1. First off, on “View” tab, click “Change View” button. 2. Then, select “Apply Current View to Other Task Folders”.![Apply Current View to Other Task Folders]( "Apply Current View to Other Task Folders") 3. In the popup dialog box, select the other Task folders and enable “Apply view to subfolders”.![Select Other Task Folders]( "Select Other Task Folders") 4. Eventually, click “OK” to activate the “View Copy”. ## Process Distressing Outlook Data Loss Have you ever been confronted with Outlook data corruption or loss? It is one of the most terrible cases that Outlook users are unwilling to experience and accept. Nevertheless, in reality, this issue can occur at any time owing to multiple factors, such as software faults, hardware problems, human errors, sudden power outage, and so on. Therefore, if intend to use Outlook for later long time, you’d better get hold of an external robust [PST repair](https://www.datanumen.com/outlook-repair/) tool, like DataNumen Outlook Repair. 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