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Create and assign tasks

Create and assign tasks

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Create and assign tasks

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- [Instructor] Outlook comes with a built in mechanism for handling all your to do lists and it's called tasks. To get to your task list, click the clipboard icon on the bottom navigation pane. You'll notice that if you hover your mouse over it, you'll get a quick peek at all your tasks. But I'm going to click on it to go directly to my tasks. The first time you go into your tasks, you may find that you already have some in here. That's because Outlook treats your follow up flags as tasks. In fact, it's considered part of your to do list. Also, if you've connected a Gmail account to your account, and you've marked certain mails as important, Outlook treats those as tasks also. On the left hand side, I can see my to do list and in here, I can see a follow up flag that we created from a previous email. In fact, I could double click on this and it would take me right to that email, or I can see it in the preview screen. On the left hand side, I can click tasks and it's going to bring me…

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