Outlook does not have any subtask construct or outlinling feature, and that will not change in Outlook 2007. That leaves you with three ways to organize related tasks:

1) Through a common category (and this becomes a more powerful mechanism in OL2007)

2) By using not a task but a contact as the parent item, usually by developing a custom contact form that looks like a project instead of a contact. The reason this is useful is that Outlook does include a feature for linking a task (or any other type of item) with a related contact through the Contacts box at the bottom of the task form.

3) By devising some linking method of your own invention.

You might also want to explore the addins listed at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/tasks.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"te goody" wrote in message ...
Sorry I wasn't clear. Please let me try again.

In general, one has a "big" task and below it multiple subtasks, and below
these you'd have sub-subtasks, etc. -- which allows one to add detail to each
(sub)task - - much like an outline one would use in Word in order to develop
his document or write his/er book -- with the same idea in mind and with
similar benefits.

As any professional would tell you, simply writing a long laundry list of
tasks -- even when priorotized is not as useful as one that allows you to
break a task into smaller steps (sub-tasks) which also include steps ordering
-- which finally leads one to complete the "top" task.

I believe that Act allows for this feature, and certainly MS Project allows
for this feature. But without going into a whole new package, would it be
possible to program something like that in Outlook 2003? -- that is, task
outline or Tasks collapseable sublevels -- whichever you'd want to call this
feature.