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I'm having an issue that is driving me up the wall. I'm simply trying to drag an email to the task button on the navigation pane (or pain, in my case). I've done this for years, and it has worked fine. Left-drag would start a task using the default method (I think it's a task with the email embedded), and right-drag would opens a context menu, which lets me choose one of four methods to create a task - with email embedded, with email as text, etc.

Recently, I've re-committed to organizing my tasks and projects, and now that I'm ready to get to it, the thing isn't allowing me to do this any longer. What happens is that when I drag the item to the Tasks navigation button, my cursor turns to a symbol indicating "you can't do that here", and if I wait a second, the tasks view will open up. Sure, I can then drag the item up to the tasks folder at the top of the screen now, but I manage so many tasks (especially during this cleanup effort), that it'll take forever to do so. Bottom line is that the Outlook just isn't working right.

Anyone have any experience with this, or have any suggestions of things to try?

Thanks!

ramiska's picture

Try another computer if you can.

At my workplace, I log onto the company network one of several ways (laptop, desktop, thin-client, remote desk). Often I cannot do some basic Office functionality from one logon but I can from another.

cb_bob's picture

Change your view to the Folder List view. You may then drag messages to the Tasks [i]folder[/i] rather than the Tasks [i]button[/i].

HMac's picture

This reminds me: if you haven't already, read the EFFECTIVE WITH OUTLOOK conversation in the Technology thread. Cedric's insights are terrific!
-Hugh

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Try opening the e-mail. Then use <Ctrl + Shift + V>. (There is a menu selection for Move to Folder, but I can only remember the keyboard shortcut now.) Scroll to the top of the list of folders and you should see Tasks and Calendar. You can put it in the Tasks list if you work well there. I found that I wouldn't get through my Tasks so I move e-mails to my calendar, assign a duration and then use the AutoPick Next in the Scheduling tab to set aside time to actually accomplish the task.

I've tested <Ctrl + Shift + V> in both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 and they both work.

Jack
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