1) To see just one group on the screen, filter the view. Create a new named view if you need to see that group often.

You might want to read up at http://blogs.msdn.com/melissamacbeth/ about what's coming in Outlook 12.

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Ok, inferior or not inferior, poorly written or not. I can't prove any
of these statements in the amount of time I want to discuss this so I
will take them back. But my general impression is that non-Microsoft
software is more user-friendly. Perhaps I should have said I am simply
dissapointed with the usability of Outlook tasks and I think there is a
lot of room for imporvement.

1) Yes I am using Group By. The main problem I have with this is that
Outlook always shows all categories and orders them in ascending or
descending alphabetical order. So if you have several groups you still
have to sort through all the groups, to find the one you want which may
be several screens down. There is no easy way, that I have found so
far, to view only one specific group on the screen at once.

Ok, I haven't looked at using the search folder yet. Perhaps I can make
it more usable if I figure that out.

2) Another quibble I have with the printing options is that when you
print the tasks on small dayrunner or daytimer pages, three pages to a
letter or A4 paper, it would be nice if the page boundaries and ring
hole positions were also printed so that it is easy to cut the pages to
the appropriate size and punch the holes in the right place so that the
pages fit in the organizer. To me this seems like a fairly obvious
feature when a little thought is put into it.

3) see comment in 1)

4) Basically what I had envisaged is having the ability to store tasks
in separate folders according to a primary category, such as a project
title. But also have the ability to see tasks from multiple folders at
once. For example all tasks that are due today regardless of what
folder they are in.

Like I was saying above, perhaps what I want to accomplish can be done
with the search folder and having all tasks in one folder in one
gargantuan task list. I haven't looked into this yet.

-Jonathan