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1. HOW DO I MAKE AN EMAIL A TASK IN OUTLOOK ON MAC HOW TO
2. HOW DO I MAKE AN EMAIL A TASK IN OUTLOOK ON MAC MAC

So for me, the convert back to email method I describe above is the usual way to go. When I do, I rarely know ahead of time that I will be doing that. And only a few of my tasks do I write back to about. Why? I prefer converting as text (instead of as attachment) because it’s easier to read the original email and the task takes less storage space. That puts the email in the task itself and can be opened and replied to.īut I for one don’t use attachments with most of my task conversions.

HOW DO I MAKE AN EMAIL A TASK IN OUTLOOK ON MAC HOW TO

Of course, if you know at the time you create the task that you will be writing back, a better way to do this is to attach the original email as an attachment to the task (see conversion link above for how to do that). Other way to do this: use attachment at start So there you have it, that’s how to convert a task back into an email, with all the info in it. Then add the email address and you are ready to send. So Step 2 is to simply edit those 10 lines out before you write the reply. The caveat is that it puts about 10 lines of task information at the top of the text (see the Subject through Owner lines at top of email text in video). See the animated GIF below.Īt the end of the video loop above, notice that it creates an email ready to reply, and all the text in the task from the original email is now in this one, providing context. (Be sure your Inbox is active so you can see the Outbox item). When you drop it, an email ready for editing is created. Step 1 is a bit counter-intuitive but it is key: you are going to drag the task out of the To-Do Bar to the Outbox label in the Navigation Pane. A new task opens with the e-mail title as the task name, and the e-mail body in the body of the task. (See this post if that script is missing).

HOW DO I MAKE AN EMAIL A TASK IN OUTLOOK ON MAC MAC

There is! Here is how to create an email from an existing task: With a message selected in Outlook Mac 2011, simply open the script menu at the far right end of the menu bar (see leftit looks like a small scroll) and choose Create Task from Message. But wait, the text of that email is in the task-isn’t there a way to convert that task back to an email? To write that reply, you could search for the original email to create the reply, and that can take a bit (unless you’d attached it to the task–see last paragraph). Then later, you complete the task and want to write back to the original requestor saying the task is done, and you want to include their original email text to provide context of the accomplishment.

Here’s a not uncommon scenario of why you might want to do that: Doing that is one of the core skills of 1MTD and MYN and something I hope you are doing all the time.īut you can do the reverse of that too… Yes, you can convert a task into an email! I’ve covered the normal forward version of this a billion times: in Windows Outlook you can convert an email into a task-with all the text of the email placed automatically in the body of the task.