Outlook Tasks Creating Task Folders
Organizing your "Tasks" is critical to quick and accurate use of the "Tasks" area of Outlook. If you have all of your "Tasks" in the main "Tasks" folder, you will spend too much time trying to locate the "Task" you want to open and work with. In business or even school you might easily have over one hundred tasks. Imagine having to down arrow through one hundred tasks to find the one you want. One easy method for organizing "Tasks" so that you can get to the "Task" you need is to create folders for your tasks. You might have folders for "Math, English, Science, Accounts, Billing," and so on. The folders you create depends on the school or work you do. Creating a folder in the "Tasks" area is just like creating a folder in the "Inbox" area--Control Shift e. Do the following activity to learn to create folders for the "Tasks" area of Outlook. When you are finished move to the link at the bottom of this page titled "BACK" to go to the "Outlook Lessons" web page.
1. Open Outlook.
2. Press Control 4 to go to the "Tasks" area of Outlook.
3. Press and hold down the Control and Shift keys and hit the letter e. This will place you in the "Create New Folder" dialogue box, in the edit box titled "Name."
4. Type a name for the new folder.
5. Hit the Enter key one time and the folder is created.
6. Repeat steps "3, 4 and 5" above to create as many "Tasks" folders as you need.
NOTE: There are other things you can do with the "Create New Folder" box. This lesson only covers the basic creation of new folders. You can explore on your own, but be careful how you pick other settings.