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Tasks / Receiving A Task




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Let us take a look at what happens when we are the recipient of a task or a request. If someone sends you a task to do, it will be sitting here waiting in your inbox of your e-mail. So we need to click on our inbox and open it up. And I can see here, that I have been sent a task request by Aaron, regarding the Profit and Loss statement. To look at that, I double clicked Open and it opens up the dialogue box with some information about this particular task that Aaron wants me to do. I can see here that it is due in three days and who it has been assigned by, the subject, profit and loss statement, the due date is the 2nd. Currently it is in progress, it is high priority, and so far 25% of this has been complete. You can see here that ownership of this task will be handed over to me, and there is a little note here explaining why this tasks been assigned to me. I have a choice now - I can choose to accept the task. And if that happens, an automatic e-mail response will be sent back to Aaron. I can decline - a window will open up allowing me to explain why it is that I am declining. Or I can choose to assign this task to somebody else. If I accept this task, it automatically jumps into my task list. And once I take ownership of this particular task, I can amend or change any information as I progress through the completion of this task. So why don't we accept the task and you can see, a window pops up telling me that this task will be accepted and moved into the Tasks folder. Do I want to edit the response before sending it? Let us say I want to add a little message for Aaron. So we will edit the response before sending and say Okay. And now, I can enter in some more information here at the bottom - we'll let Aaron know that that's fine, and click Send. That will now pop into my Outbox. Let us take a look on my shortcuts and if I click on my Outbox, I can see that indeed there is that message waiting to be sent to Aaron. Now if I come back to my Outlook shortcut, and jump back into my Tasks folder, I will be able to see that that task has been added to my list. Now if I drop that down I can see here indeed that Profit and Loss statement has been added with all its appropriate information. Now if I want to edit that, I simply double click, open it up and if I change any information here at any stage, for example up to 50% done, I'm changing the date to a little while later, perhaps the following week etc and I choose Save and Close - it will automatically send an update to Aaron to let him know that I have made some changes. So if we come back down here, take a look in my shortcuts, go to my Outbox and there again is another e-mail letting Aaron know the changes that I have made to this particular task. And that will happen every time I go in and make any changes. So let us come back to our Outlook shortcut, come back to Tasks, and now I am free to continue working on my projects.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Outlook 2000
Author: Zoe Barnett
SKU: 33181
ISBN: 1930519109
Release Date: 2000-07-06
Duration: 6 hrs / 61 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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