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The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By : Barbara March
Book Image

The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By: Barbara March

Overview of this book

Microsoft Outlook, in tandem with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides a powerful environment for sharing information. This book will show you how to take advantage of that to construct solutions for your business or organization from the features of Outlook. This book is a collection of scenarios that incorporate and link many Outlook components to produce surprisingly powerful functionality. Without the need for code or specially-written applications, you will be extracting information from your Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create solutions like these: Monitoring staff leave and printing schedules Managing meeting rooms and printing invoices Managing fleet vehicles, their records, and servicing Managing a school class calendar, student records, attendance, assignments, and reports
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Linking Tasks to Contacts


We have seen in previous chapters the value of linking items to Contacts, and the great thing about assigned tasks is that Outlook automatically links them to the relevant contacts in your default Contacts folder.

For Tasks assigned by me, Outlook automatically places a link to the assignee’s contact record in the Contacts box at the foot of the task window and double-clicking on this link will open the assignee’s contact record.

The tasks will also appear on the Activities tab of the assignee’s contact record and the same fields can be included on this page as they appear in the view. This produces a history of past and current tasks assigned to an individual with associated time‑management data.