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Managing Tasks

As you work with tasks, you'll want to keep your Tasks folder updated to reflect the status of each task. One obvious tactic is to mark each task as completed once you've finished the task. To do this, you open the Task dialog box and then change the Status box to Completed or the % Complete box to 100%. Once you've marked a task as complete, it appears in the Tasks folder with a line through it. Some tasks are jobs that you need to complete on a regular basis. In this case, you can make a task recurring. Recurring tasks have a small icon with two circling arrows in the Tasks folder.

Mark a Task as Completed

Double-click the task.

Click the Status list arrow, and then click Completed.

TIMESAVER In views with a Status column, click the Status column for the task, click the list arrow, and then click Completed.

Click the Save And Close button.

TIMESAVER In Simple List view, click the Complete check box.

Change a Task to Recurring

Double-click the task.

Click the Recurrence button on the Standard toolbar.

Click the recurrence pattern option you want.

Select the check boxes with the recurrence pattern you want.

Click the end date option you want.

Click OK.

Click the Save And Close button.