Hi,

I'm an old codger who used to use Appleworks (the one that ran on ProDOS on
the //e) and then Sidekick (no, the old TSR that ran under DOS) and then
Lotus Organizer for keeping track of appointments and tasks. I find it
interesting that Outlook, with all of its bells and whistles, gives me just
three choices of priority and a due date with which to sort my blooming
tasks. Not sufficient. I've been using it a couple of years now and just
switched from Office Pro 2003 on WinXP to Office Pro 2007 on Vista Business.
Still just 3 priority levels and a due date.

I did a search for the terms "tasks" and "priorities" here and found an
enigmatic statement by Milly Staples back in April of 2006 to someone who had
much the same complaint that he would be interested in upgrading to Outlook
2007 when it became available.

Am I missing something, Milly? Anybody? Somebody throw me a bone here! I
can't believe that every previous personal information organizer I've ever
used is superior to Outlook in this regard!

I'm guessing the answer, if there is one, is going to somehow involve OneNote.

The main thing you're probably missing is that unsorted task views, like SImple List and Active Tasks, allow you to drag items up and down to rearrange them. So does the new To Do Bar.
--
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

"jimmuh" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I'm an old codger who used to use Appleworks (the one that ran on ProDOS on
the //e) and then Sidekick (no, the old TSR that ran under DOS) and then
Lotus Organizer for keeping track of appointments and tasks. I find it
interesting that Outlook, with all of its bells and whistles, gives me just
three choices of priority and a due date with which to sort my blooming
tasks. Not sufficient. I've been using it a couple of years now and just
switched from Office Pro 2003 on WinXP to Office Pro 2007 on Vista Business.
Still just 3 priority levels and a due date.

I did a search for the terms "tasks" and "priorities" here and found an
enigmatic statement by Milly Staples back in April of 2006 to someone who had
much the same complaint that he would be interested in upgrading to Outlook
2007 when it became available.

Am I missing something, Milly? Anybody? Somebody throw me a bone here! I
can't believe that every previous personal information organizer I've ever
used is superior to Outlook in this regard!

I'm guessing the answer, if there is one, is going to somehow involve OneNote.

Actually, I had noticed those features, but they didn't seem to do just what
I had in mind. I was thinking that I needed to actually be able to assign
numeric priorities to do what I wanted. I'll re-examine them to see if I can
get them to show me what I want in the type of view I want. For some reason I
seemed to be unable to compose a useable view which shows appointments and
tasks, with sufficient information from both to be useful. I thought I also
found that the order I created by dragging and dropping wasn't "sticky". But
I'll hammer away at it for a while and see if I can come up with something
that works. Thank you for the reminder.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The main thing you're probably missing is that unsorted task views, like SImple List and Active Tasks, allow you to drag items up and down to rearrange them. So does the new To Do Bar.
--
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

"jimmuh" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I'm an old codger who used to use Appleworks (the one that ran on ProDOS on
the //e) and then Sidekick (no, the old TSR that ran under DOS) and then
Lotus Organizer for keeping track of appointments and tasks. I find it
interesting that Outlook, with all of its bells and whistles, gives me just
three choices of priority and a due date with which to sort my blooming
tasks. Not sufficient. I've been using it a couple of years now and just
switched from Office Pro 2003 on WinXP to Office Pro 2007 on Vista Business.
Still just 3 priority levels and a due date.

I did a search for the terms "tasks" and "priorities" here and found an
enigmatic statement by Milly Staples back in April of 2006 to someone who had
much the same complaint that he would be interested in upgrading to Outlook
2007 when it became available.

Am I missing something, Milly? Anybody? Somebody throw me a bone here! I
can't believe that every previous personal information organizer I've ever
used is superior to Outlook in this regard!

I'm guessing the answer, if there is one, is going to somehow involve OneNote.