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How to reassign a task that someone has assigned to you

How to reassign a task that someone has assigned to you

  1. Open the message that contains the assigned task.
  2. On the Actions menu, click Assign Task.
  3. In the To box, enter the name of the person you want to assign the task to the same way you did before. Remember that to select the name from a list, click on the To button.
  4. Select or uncheck the Keep an updated copy of this task on my task list check box and the Send me a status report when this task is complete check box.
  5. Click Send.

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How to reassign a task after your recipient declines your request

Presuming the person you send the task to declines your request you may want to reassign it to someone else. So how do you do this? Well here’s how:

  1. In your task list, open the declined task by double clicking onto it.
  2. On the Actions menu, click Assign Task.
  3. In the To box, enter the name of the person you want to assign the task to the same way you did before. Remember that to select the name from a list, click on the To button.
  4. Click Send.

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How to Assign a Task to someone else

If your someone that constantly writes a ‘things to-do list’ on paper or maybe you simply want a way of managing your tasks more effectively and being able to create a ‘To-Do’ list with due by dates? well now you can and here’s how.

  1. Click on ‘Task’s inside the ‘Folder List’. To create a new task, click on the File menu, point to New, and then click Task Request. To assign an existing task, in the task list open the task you want to assign, and click Assign Task.outlook_tasks
     
  2. In the To box, enter the name of the person you want to assign the task to. To select the name from a list, click on the To button.
  3. Fill in the Subject box with an appropriate name for the task being assigned.
  4. Fill in the due date boxes and status as required.
  5. Select or uncheck the Keep an updated copy of this task on my task list check box and the Send me a status report when this task is complete check box.
  6. If you want to repeat the task, click onto the Actions menu, click Recurrence, select the options you want, and then click OK.
  7. In the main body of the task, type information or instructions about the task
  8. Click Send.

Please Note: If you assign a recurring task, a copy of the task will remain in your task list, but it won’t be updated. However If you select the Send me a status report when this task is complete check box, you will receive a status report when each occurrence of the task is completed.

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Creating Shortcuts and saving to them the Outlook Bar

Remember in the ‘email’ tutorial we discussed the Outlook Bar and how to add a favourite topic from pubic folders to the outlook shortcuts? Firstly select public folders, all public folders then right click on the folder or file you wish to add and select the option to ‘add to outlook bar’. The next time you need to look at this folder you will be able to select it quickly from your outlook bar instead of tracing through the folders.

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How to Access Public Folders

Public Folders can be seen listed inside your ‘Folder List’. It can contains any type of folder and/or files and be used by multiple users at the same time.

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What is Public Folders?

If your new to Outlook and have never used or even heard of Public Folders before, then at first it can seen a bit daunting. Public Folders can be really handy and a useful feature to have. This feature makes it possible to organise and share information with others in your work place.

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