Just beacuse features you want are not there, does not mean a piece of
software is poory written. I happen to think that the features you want are
reasonable - but very specific. You can not say MS software is inferior.
Inferior when compared to what? What is Excel inferior to? What is Outlook
inferior to? Are you really saying that the task feature of Outlook is
inferior to the task feature of another specific program?

anyway...

1) have you tried the Group By box? Group by Category, then you can sort
and expand or collapse the ones you want. Also, in all of Outlook, leave
the Find 'toolbar' open. In there, type in the categories you want to view
such as gliding; shop and you will see only the categories you want (acts
like a filter).

2) a) b) and c). Yes.

3) You can by Ascending/Descending. Group by Category.

4) So tell me... you say you prefer to keep different catetgories of tasks
in different folders, yet you have some tasks in more than one category.
Does that mean you have tasks in more than one folder?

Neal


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Take another read through your response and then consider this: Perhaps
the reason tasks is a "not very useful feature" of Outlook and the
"least used in Outlook" is because it is POORLY WRITTEN!!

Also, I'd appreciate if you would explain to me what is so exacting
about the complaints I have above. IMO, all of them are common sense
features that should have been included in the software.